"Gaps"begins with Hrabal receiving the long anticipated advance copy of his first short story collection, "Perlicka na dne"("Pearl of the Deep"). Hrabal's career as a successful writer starts here, and the novel details his rise on the domestic front, his relationship with influential Czech artists and writers, as well as the international recognition he gains from novels such as"Closely Watched Trains." "Gaps"is a more overtly political novel than either"In-House Weddings"or"Vita Nuova." The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the subsequent repression of artistic freedom figure...
"Gaps"begins with Hrabal receiving the long anticipated advance copy of his first short story collection, "Perlicka na dne"("Pearl of the Deep"). Hrab...
The novel Ruta Tannenbaum is by prolific, award-winning Croatian author Miljenko Jergovic. First published in 2006, the story illuminates life and society in Yugoslavia between the world wars. The title character was inspired by real-life figure Lea Deutsch, the now-forgotten Shirley Temple of Yugoslavia, who was murdered in the Holocaust. Using their shared Jewish heritage as a starting point, Jergovic constructs a fictional family history populated by historical figures with the precocious Ruta at the center. Stephen Dickey's translation masterfully captures Jergovic's...
The novel Ruta Tannenbaum is by prolific, award-winning Croatian author Miljenko Jergovic. First published in 2006, the story illuminates life ...
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Peki, one of the former Yugoslavia s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard during the war, saved from drowning, thus making him vulnerable to charges of...
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus G...
