Ordered by two mysterious men to write a statement of about 100 pages, the narrator of Chinese Letter--who's not sure of his name, but calls himself Fritz--faithfully records the bizarre occurrences of his daily life: his absurd conversations with his mother who is abducted by slave traders, his visits to his friend who works in the hospital's autopsy room, and his sister's tumultuous marriage to the butcher's son, to name a few. Widely respected in Serbia, the term "Basarian" has been coined to refer to his unique writing style, reminiscent of the best of Samuel Beckett for its...
Ordered by two mysterious men to write a statement of about 100 pages, the narrator of Chinese Letter--who's not sure of his name, but calls himsel...
From one of Serbia s greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival at the theatre, he discovers that there s only one other person in the audience, a very attractive woman whom he s seated next to. Then things get a bit more mysterious. The movie he s been invited to see includes a scene showing him sitting in a park. Believing that he s an unwitting participant in a complicated hidden camera show, he goes along with the...
From one of Serbia s greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment ...
In this contemporary retelling of Bram Stoker s Dracula, Estonian writer Mati Unt offers a playful yet unsettling mixture of fact and fiction, combining pieces of Estonian political history in particular the figure of Lydia Koidula (1843-1886), widely regarded as the first Estonian woman to express an Estonian longing for independence with portraits of life in contemporary Estonia, all set against a backdrop of vampirism and the Gothic novel."
In this contemporary retelling of Bram Stoker s Dracula, Estonian writer Mati Unt offers a playful yet unsettling mixture of fact and fiction, combini...
