Garden Ashes (Harvest in Translation) - Softcover

Kis, Danilo; Kis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015634548X ISBN 13: 9780156345484

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1994

Synopsis

From young Andi Scham's memories emerges the story of his father, who recedes from life in Yugoslovia and then disappears in the Holocaust. Andi's search for him is a story that "claims you like a symphonic poem" (Library Journal). Translated by William J. Hannaher.

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Review:

Garden, Ashes will influence the most current trends in the art of the literary avant-garde so much so that it may even shape the course of the novel.

In Kis's case . . . it is the consistent quality of the local prose that counts. It is how, sentence by sentence, the song is built, and immeasurable meanings meant. It is the rich regalia of his rhetoric that leads us to acknowledge his authority. On his page, trappings are not trappings, but sovereignty itself.

Garden, Ashe

"Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kis's "Garden, Ashes" is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century."--Aleksandar Hemon, from the introduction

Synopsis:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 015634548X
• ISBN 13: 9780156345484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176