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With the end of World War II, Blam is haunted by his recollections of the people who once lived among him in his community who are no longer alive and thinks of his own life and the many dreams he had that have been lost forever. Reprint.
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"A startling, extraordinary creation."--The New Yorker
"Tisma is unrelenting in his quest for truth yet compassionate in his judgments of individuals."--The Wall Street Journal
One of the most stirring novels to come from the Balkans. Larry Wolff" The New York Times"
A startling, extraordinary creation. "The New Yorker
" Ti ma has made Novi Sad a microcosm for the most painful developments of 20th-century history. It is a city of tiers, one tier the actual city in which Miroslav survives, the other filled by the possible lives of those who perished. Yet life on the edge of the abyss is surprisingly normal...The intersection of this high intellectual refinement with the most brutal incidents in history gives the novel, which has been published to acclaim in France and Germany, its great, eccentric pathos. "Publishers Weekly
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A Balkan bible presided over by an ironic vision of the imagination, capable of envisioning utter barbarity but not the expiation for sins. "The Boston Globe"
Ti ma is unrelenting in his quest for truth yet compassionate in his judgments of individuals. "The Wall Street Journal""
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"Tisma is unrelenting in his quest for truth yet compassionate in his judgments of individuals."--The Wall Street Journal
One of the most stirring novels to come from the Balkans. Larry Wolff" The New York Times"
A startling, extraordinary creation. "The New Yorker
" Ti ma has made Novi Sad a microcosm for the most painful developments of 20th-century history. It is a city of tiers, one tier the actual city in which Miroslav survives, the other filled by the possible lives of those who perished. Yet life on the edge of the abyss is surprisingly normal...The intersection of this high intellectual refinement with the most brutal incidents in history gives the novel, which has been published to acclaim in France and Germany, its great, eccentric pathos. "Publishers Weekly
"
A Balkan bible presided over by an ironic vision of the imagination, capable of envisioning utter barbarity but not the expiation for sins. "The Boston Globe"
Ti ma is unrelenting in his quest for truth yet compassionate in his judgments of individuals. "The Wall Street Journal""
ALEKSANDAR TISMA was born in 1924 in Vojvodina, Yugoslavia, to a Serbian father and a Hungarian mother. He experienced the Holocaust in his native town of Novi Sad. After the war he worked as a journalist in Novi Sad and Belgrade, and later became an editor, writer, and translator. He has written sixteen works of fiction, of which the last five--what he calls a pentateuch of novels and stories--have been devoted to the subject of the Holocaust.
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0156008416
- ISBN 13 9780156008419
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages226
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