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OverviewIn this breathtaking final work, Dasa Drndic reaches new heights. Andreas Ban's suicide attempt has failed. Though very ill, he still finds the will to tap on the glass of history to summon those imprisoned within. Mercilessly, he dissects society and his environment, shunning all favors as he goes after the evils and hidden secrets of our times. History remembers the names of the perpetrators, not the victims--Ban remembers and honors the lost. He travels from Rijeka to Zagreb, from Belgrade to Tirana, from Parisian avenues to Italian castles. Ghosts follow him wherever he goes: chess grandmasters who disappeared during WWII; the lost inhabitants of Latvia; war criminals who found work in the CIA and died peacefully in their beds. Ban's family is with him too, those already dead and those with one foot in the grave. As if left with only a few pieces in a chess game, Andreas Ban--and Dasa Drndic--play a stunning last match against Death. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dasa Drndic , Celia HawkesworthPublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 20.10cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780811228480ISBN 10: 0811228487 Pages: 380 Publication Date: 30 April 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA pensive, provocative novel of history, memory, and our endlessly blood-soaked times by one of the foremost writers to have emerged from the former Yugoslavia. Reading Dasa Drndic is not for the fainthearted. Anger radiates from Drndic's pages, and perhaps the book's greatest strength is the way in which it gives a voice to those people who are unable to tell their own stories.--Shaun Walker Drndic has in her own way composed an astonishment that extracts light from darkness. The formidable Dasa Drndic has created something like a modern-day Homeric narrative of wars that are anything but glorious. In Celia Hawkesworth, she has a translator of genius who shares her vision. It is difficult to suggest a contemporary English-language novel with which to compare it, or one that might even approach its eloquence and daring.--Eileen Battersby The formidable Dasa Drndic has created something like a modern-day Homeric narrative of wars that are anything but glorious. In Celia Hawkesworth, she has a translator of genius who shares her vision. It is difficult to suggest a contemporary English-language novel with which to compare it, or one that might even approach its eloquence and daring.--Eileen Battersby A pensive, provocative novel of history, memory, and our endlessly blood-soaked times by one of the foremost writers to have emerged from the former Yugoslavia. Reading Dasa Drndic is not for the fainthearted. Anger radiates from Drndic's pages, and perhaps the book's greatest strength is the way in which it gives a voice to those people who are unable to tell their own stories.--Shaun Walker Drndic has in her own way composed an astonishment that extracts light from darkness. Author Information"Dasa Drndic (1946-2018) wrote Trieste--""splendid, absorbing"" (The New York Times)--shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; Belladonna--""one of the strangest and strongest books"" (TLS)-- winner of the 2018 Warwick Prize; and EEG--""a masterpiece"" (Joshua Cohen). She also wrote plays, criticism, radio plays, and documentaries. Celia Hawkesworth has translated The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic, Belladonna by Dasa Drndic--shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize--and Omer Pasha Latas by the Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andric." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |