This is like a fairy tale, all this.
A woman meets a stranger who tells her her identity is a lie. 772 (or 789) children's brains rest silently in jars. A traveller comes to a quotidian city, unknowingly approaching her past.
From the author of Trieste (shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) comes this bedazzling kaleidoscopic novel, stitching together fact and fiction, history and memory, words and images into a heart-breaking collage that manages to look askance at the blinding horror of history.
Ranging across themes of memory, loss, inheritance and storytelling, Drndic borrows from every tradition of writing to weave together a fragmented narrative of love and disease, in a novel that's very format raises penetrating and unanswerable questions about history, and the processes by which we describe and remember it.
- ISBN10 0857053264
- ISBN13 9780857053268
- Publish Date 4 June 2015
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Quercus Publishing
- Imprint MacLehose Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English