Belladonna

Zusatztext Dasa Drndic interweaves fiction! reality! history! and memory to terrific effect . . . Drndic attacks history with a novelist's sensibility and has produced a poignant meditation on love and loss! the insanity of war and the legacy of human cruelty. Informationen zum Autor Daša Drndic was a distinguished Croatian novelist and playwright. She was also been a translator, and a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. Trieste (2012), her first novel to be translated into English, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and has now been translated into many other languages. It was followed by Leica Format (2015) and Belladonna (2017). Belladonna has been shortlisted for both the inaugural EBRD prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and received stunning reviews. Daša Drndic died in June 2018. Klappentext Trade paperback. A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world. By the author of the acclaimed "Trieste". A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste Zusammenfassung A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dasa Drndic, Daša Drndic
• Mitarbeit: Celia Hawkesworth (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780857054319
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-431-9
• Seiten: 400
• Abmessung: 147 mm x 209 mm x 35 mm
• Serien: MacLehose Press Editions; MacLehose Press Editions
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / General, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Croatia, Coping with ageing, Coping with old age