Games With Greta - And Other Stories

Zusatztext "Subtle, bittersweet pieces about the difficulties of moving from girlhood to womanhood in the former Yugoslavia." -Juliet Jacques, The Guardian , "Best Books of Summer 2016" Informationen zum Autor Suzana Tratnik (born 1963) is a writer, translator, publicist, and sociologist. She has published six short-story collections, two novels ( My Name is Damjan and Third World ), a play, and three works of nonfiction. Tratnik was one of the founders of the LGBT-rights movement in 1980s Yugoslavia and was instrumental in creating one of Eastern Europe's most vibrant alternative cultural scenes before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2007 she was awarded the Prešeren Foundation Prize, one of Slovenia's most prestigious literary awards. Klappentext A new collection of stories that has not appeared together before in any language. Zusammenfassung The protagonists of Suzana Tratnik’s short stories all share a sense of isolation on society’s margins. Whether non-participants in the mainstream, rebels against it, or its occasional victims, they’re well practiced at recognizing the herd instinct in action.

Product details

• Authors: Suzana Tratnik, Suzana/ Biggins Tratnik
• Assisted by: Michael Biggins (Translation), Michael (University of Washington) Biggins (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781628971415
• ISBN: 978-1-62897-141-5
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Slovenian Literature; SLOVENIAN LITERATURE SERIES; Slovenian Literature; Slovenian Literature Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature