Belladonna

A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste

About the author

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.

Summary

A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste

Foreword

A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste

Additional text

Daša 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.

Product details

• Authors: A, Da'53 Drndic, Dasa Drndic, Daša Drndic
• Assisted by: Celia Hawkesworth (Translation), Hawkesworth Celia (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780857054302
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-430-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 192 mm x 30 mm
• Series: MacLehose Press Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; 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