Guarding Hanna
A Novel
$37.94
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2011
Summary
Abandoned at birth because he has the face of a “prize boar,” the unnamed narrator of Guarding Hanna knows only a local Berlin gang as family. Patriarch Maestro acts as surrogate father, employing him to collect debts and perform thuggish tasks. Except for brief moments interacting with the gang, “the beast” spends his life alone, wandering Berlin’s streets and sleeping in its vast housing projects.
This changes in a flash when one of Maestro’s sons is implicated in a crime. The only …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781556437267 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1556437269 |
| Author: | Miha Mazzini |
| Publisher: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Imprint: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 442g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 154mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Scala Translation |
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Critics Review
“In … Guarding Hanna, [Mazzini] has created a bestial protagonist … a gargoyle of a man [who] struggles heroically with his own nature only to find that life has played him one horrific joke.”
—Village Voice
”[Hanna’s] a wonderful creation: vulnerable, lonely, trying to keep her mood upbeat but not always succeeding. In fact, she’s just the thing to melt the Beast’s hostility-or drive him, with her chatter, to homicidal distraction….Throw in the narrator’s grim musings on his lot in life and his occasional urge to strangle Hanna, and you have a tonic mix of menace and comedy that keeps things hopping right up to the book’s twist ending.”
—Seattle Times
“Mazzini is a multi-talented writer. … He is a true talent in a wide variety of writing styles, and the opening chapter of Guarding Hannah could stand alone as a short story worthy of inclusion in The New Yorker.”
—ArtInfo.com
About The Author
Miha Mazzini
Slovenian novelist Miha Mazzini burst onto the literary scene with the publication of his first novel, The Cartier Project, in 1987, which went on to become the all-time bestselling novel in Yugoslavia, and was awarded the Best Novel of the Year by both the state and opposition presses.
Since then, as the author of over 20 books, Mazzini has become one of Slovenia’s best-known writers. He has received nationwide critical acclaim in the United States for his novels Guarding Hanna (North American release 2002) and The Cartier Project (North American release 2004). Mazzini is also an award-winning screenwriter and director. His screenplay for The Cartier Project movie won the CIRCOM Award; he also wrote the semi-autobiographical screenplay for Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, which received a Golden Palm at the Valencia (Spain) Film Festival and has been screened to critical acclaim throughout Europe and the United States.
Mazzini lives and works in Ljubljana. He holds an MA in Creative Writing for Film and Television from the University of Sheffield and has lectured at writing and film workshops around the world. He is a voting member of the European Film Academy.
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