Summary
‘A beautiful, soul-searching and genuinely tragi-comic novel’ Daily Telegraph
Believing they were being taken to a better camp, Belgrade’s Jews would climb into the truck with a sense of relief. Mainly women, children and the elderly, they expected a long and uncomfortable trip but, after crossing the border, their journey would come to an abrupt end. Here the drivers would get out and attach a hose from the exhaust to the back of the truck.
Over the course of a few months in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099542384 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099542382 |
| Author: | David Albahari, Ellen Elias-Bursac |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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This is a heartbreaking book, sardonic and brutal, written at unrelenting pace with great compassion and wild humour.
This is a heartbreaking book, sardonic and brutal, written at unrelenting pace with great compassion and wild humour. * The Independent *
A triumph. A testament to the power of the imagination * Daily Telegraph *
Indisputably an exceptional novel * Literary Review *
A beautiful, soul-searching and genuinely tragi-comic novel * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
David Albahari
David Albahari was born in Serbia in 1948. He founded, and was for many years the editor in chief of, Pismo, a magazine of world literature. He is also an accomplished translator of Anglo-American literature. He lives in Calgary, Canada.
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