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Language: English
Published by Northwestern University Press, 1998
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Hourglass
- Author
- Manheim Ralph Kis Danilo
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0810115131
- ISBN 13
- 9780810115132
The Hourglass tells the story of the final months of one man's life in the period leading up to his dispatch to a concentration camp. It is considered to be Danilo Kis's masterpiece. The author died in 1989.
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About the Author
DANILO KIS (1935-1989) 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 Günthre Grass and Bertolt Brecht.
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