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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
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"What distinguishes Ki 's novel is its authorial independence. A conventional narrative structure is ignored; it is the author's musings and diversions that magically build suspense. That he succeeds is a rare achievement." --Herbert Mitgang, "New York Times"
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"What distinguishes Kis's novel is its authorial independence. A conventional narrative structure is ignored; it is the author's musings and diversions that magically build suspense. That he succeeds is a rare achievement." --Herbert Mitgang, New York Times
"Probably no other novelist has succeeded better than Kis in making a densely stylistic pattern out of such a nightmare, conveying with gruesome but also aesthetically beautiful effect the interrelation in such a life at such a time of the quotidian and the apocalyptic, the combination of the sense of trivia with the sense of doom." --John Bayley, New York Review of Books
"A finely sustained, complex fictional performance. It is full of pain and rage and gusto and joy of living, at once side-splitting and a heartbreaker." --John Simon, Washington Post Book World
About the Author
Danilo Kis (February 22, 1935-October 15, 1989) was a Yugoslavian novelist, short story writer and poet who wrote in Serbo-Croatian. Kis was influenced by Bruno Schulz, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Ivo Andric, among other authors. His most famous works include A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead. Ralph Manheim has translated several works by Gunthre Grass and Bertolt Brecht.
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Hourglass
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Ralph Manheim. As you can see from the photos the covers are in very nice shape. There really isn't any conspicuous wear. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages, no binding issues. These pages are exceptionally clean. I'm scrolling through without finding any instances of soiling. Nor are there any turned-down corner creases or dogeared corners. I found only one thin crease off the outer edge of one page. There is some light dust staining on the middle and bottom page edges, but that has no impact on the actual pages. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. The dust jacket can be seen in the first few photos. It's very clean. There are a few lines of clouding resulting from the changeover in the fabric of the book (see fourth photo). The jacket doesn't have much wear, just a little spot at the bottom edge of the spine where the black peeled off. The flaps are in very solid shape. They are very clean. They do have some uniform toning. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. William Gass writing for The New York Review of Books is quoted on the dust jacket: In Ki? case, it is the consistent quality of the prose that counts. It is how, sentence by sentence, the song is built, and immeasurable meanings meant. It is not the plan but it's nearly faultless execution that takes away the breath, and produces admiration.' 'Danilo Ki? was a Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. Ki? was influenced by Bruno Schulz, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Ivo Andri? and Miroslav Krle?a, among other authors. His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, and The Encyclopedia of the Dead.'. Seller Inventory # 002639
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This book is bound in tan boards with a black spine with bright orange letters. There is a previous owner's ink signature on the front end paper, otherwise the book is clean, bright & unmarked. States: First Edition, 1990". The dust jacket is priced clipped, otherwise clean, bright & unmarked. Seller Inventory # 1265 (Box 55).
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Hourglass: A Novel
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1990 Hard Cover. 274 pp. Translated into English from the original Serbo-Croatian by Ralph Manheim. 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. Seller Inventory # 2353692
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FSG, New York, 1990. First American edition, first printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy. Price of $22.95 intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. A novel, translated from the Serbo-Croation by Ralph Manheim. Originally published as "Pescanik" in 1972, HOURGLASS tells the account of the final months in a man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp. Hourglass is in part based on the life of the author's Jewish father, who was murdered in Auschwitz. Seller Inventory # fiction-stacks-k-01