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Eight stories explore the diverse nature of humanity in a style of prose that has the richness of poetry (view table of contents)

Danilo Kris remembers the luxuriant joys of his Yugoslavian boyhood as well as the poverty and failures suffered by his family during World War II

A unique collection of the nonfiction writings of an acclaimed Serbian novelist and essayist offers intelligent and sensitive probings of such issues as nationalism, censorship, and literature, and features probing and revealing interviews.

In a devastating story of the Holocaust, a fifty-three-year-old minor functionary of the Royal Hungarian Railways, E.S., investigates the reduction of his pension, while the Nazis plot the extermination of the European Jews

Product Description: Mansarda is the first novel published by the renowned Serbian author Danilo Kis (1935-1989). Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, Mandarda explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing; it also tracks the personal relationship among a colorful cast of characters with nicknames such as Eurydice, Mary Magdalene, Tam-Tam, and Billy Wise Ass...read more

E.S., a fifty-year-old minor functionary in the Hungarian State Railways, is notified that his pension is to be reduced, the first hint that he is about to be caught up in the nightmare of the Holocaust

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Product Description: Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common fate...read more

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