Dasa Drndic

Doppelgänger

Buch

Two elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year's Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, a Holocaust survivor, are revealed through police dossiers. As they fight loneliness and aging, they take comfort in small things: for Artur, a collection of 274 hats; for Isabella, a family of garden gnomes who live in her apartment. Later, we meet the ill-fated Pupi, who dreamed of becoming a sculptor but instead became a chemist and then a spy. As Eileen Battersby wrote, As he stands, in the zoo, gazing at a pair of rhinos, in a city most likely present-day Belg… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Curtis, S. D. (Übers.) / Hawkesworth, Celia (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2891-6
EAN: 9780811228916
Produktnummer: 32632931
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.7 cm 199 g
Gewicht: 199

Über den Autor

DaSa Drndic (1946-2018) wrote Trieste-a masterpiece (Financial Times)-shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Belladonna-one of thestrangest and strongest books (TLS)-winner of the 2018 Warwick Prize, and EEG-a masterpiece (Joshua Cohen).