Belladonna
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: 378 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
"From the author of the highly acclaimed Trieste, a fierce novel about history, memory, and illness. Andreas Ban, a psychologist who does not psychologize anymore and a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. He sifts through the remnants of his life--his research, books, photographs--remembering old lovers and friends, the events of WWII, and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Ban's memories of Belgrade, Amsterdam, and Toronto alternate with meditations on the mental faculties of rats, a depressed arctic fox, and the agelessness of lobsters. He tries to push the past away, to "land on a little island of time in which tomorrow does not exist, in which yesterday is buried." Drndic leafs through the horrors of history with a cold unflinching wit. "The past is riddled with holes," she writes. "Souvenirs can't help here."-- Provided by publisher
Subjects:
Memory -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780811227216 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Drndic | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |