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ISBN-10: 0811228487
ISBN-13: 9780811228480
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 04/30/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.40" W, 1.30" H

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Translator: Celia Hawkesworth

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Price: $19.95

Overview

In this breathtaking final work, Dasa Drndic reaches new heights. Andreas Ban’s suicide attempt has failed. Though very ill, he still finds the will to tap on the glass of history to summon those imprisoned within. Mercilessly, he dissects society and his environment, shunning all favors as he goes after the evils and hidden secrets of our times. History remembers the names of the perpetrators, not the victims–Ban remembers and honors the lost. He travels from Rijeka to Zagreb, from Belgrade to Tirana, from Parisian avenues to Italian castles. Ghosts follow him wherever he goes: chess grandmasters who disappeared during WWII; the lost inhabitants of Latvia; war criminals who found work in the CIA and died peacefully in their beds. Ban’s family is with him too, those already dead and those with one foot in the grave. As if left with only a few pieces in a chess game, Andreas Ban–and Dasa Drndic–play a stunning last match against Death.

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One of the most electrifying prose writers of our time. Dasa Drndic has blessed us with a narrator unafraid to merge global traumas with personal ones–we have before us a novel that answers the demands of history with equal parts tenacity and generosity.– "*The Hudson Review*"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811228487
ISBN-13: 9780811228480
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 04/30/2019
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.40" W, 1.30" H
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