Death in the Museum of Modern Art: Six Stories - Softcover

Alma Lazarevska

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908236175 ISBN 13: 9781908236173

Publisher: Istros Books, 2014

Synopsis

One of the finest works to have emerged from the tragedy that was the siege of Sarajevo.

A tender and revealing set of stories by the uniquely delicate Bosnian writer, Alma Lazarevska. Avoiding the easy traps of politics and blame, Lazarevska reveals a world full of incidents and worries so similar to our own, and yet always under the shadow of the snipers and the bombs that we know are out there and that occasionally impinge on the story in shocking ways.

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About the Author

Alma Lazarevska is a Bosnian prose writer and graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Sarajevo). Her home town is mentioned in the title of a collection of her essays, Sarajevo Solitaire. It is the setting for her novel The Sign of the Rose, which has been translated into French and German. The stimulus for the novel was the murder of Rosa Luxemburg. Her books Death in the Museum of Modern Art (translated into French and German) and Plants are Something Else (the title story has recently been included in an edition of the magazine Wasafiri) deal with siege, and a 'besieged city' without naming it. Her story 'How we Killed the Sailor', translated by Celia Hawkesworth, was included in an anthology of women writers from East and Central Europe: Voices in the shadows: women and verbal art in Serbia and Bosnia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Istros Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908236175
• ISBN 13: 9781908236173
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124