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ISBN-10: 081011514X
ISBN-13: 9780810115149
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: 01/07/1998
Dimensions: 7.86" L, 5.18" W, 0.70" H

Encyclopedia of the Dead

Translator: Michael Henry Heim

Paperback

Price: $21.00

Overview

The most famous collection of short fiction by acclaimed Yugoslavian writer Danilo Kis. In these nine stories Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes–the multitude of details that make up a human life. Kis combines fiction and history in postmodern style, and in a postscript provides fascinating historical backgrounds and other notes for the reader that add interest and context. An enduring classic of Slavic literary fiction.

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"Remarkable . . . A shadow of death darkens this book, but it is a beautiful shadow and a luminescent darkness." –Josef Skvorecky, The New Republic
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Details

ISBN-10: 081011514X
ISBN-13: 9780810115149
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: 01/07/1998
Dimensions: 7.86" L, 5.18" W, 0.70" H
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