The Book of Blam (First Edition)

Tisma, Aleksandar

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Language: English

Published by Harcourt Brace, New York, 1998

0151002355 / 9780151002351

Series: Book 7 of 101 - New York Review Books Classics

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New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998. First American edition. First printing (full letter line including A). Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Jacket retains original publisher's price of $23.00 on the front flap. Protected in a removable archival mylar sleeve. Smoke-free. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Michael Henry Heim. Originally published in Yugoslavia in 1972, "The Book of Blam" is the first volume in Tisma's acclaimed "Novi Sad trilogy," preceding "The Use of Man" and "Kapo." The novel follows Miroslav Blam, a Jewish survivor of the 1942 Novi Sad raid, as he navigates post-war life in Yugoslavia, haunted by memories and survivor's guilt. Octavo, 226 pages. Aleksandar Tisma (1924–2003) was a Serbian novelist, short story writer, and translator whose work examines the moral and psychological aftermath of war, especially the Holocaust and its lingering effects in postwar Yugoslavia. Born in Horgos to a Serbian father and a Hungarian-Jewish mother, he was educated in Novi Sad and Budapest and later worked as a journalist before devoting himself to fiction. Tisma's novels are marked by lucid, disciplined prose and an unflinching exploration of guilt, complicity, and survival. His major works include “The Book of Blam” (1972), “The Use of Man” (1976), “The Great War” (1975), “Kapo” (1987), and “The School of Godlessness” (1993), many forming an interrelated cycle set around the occupied city of Novi Sad. Often compared to Primo Levi, Tisma was one of the first Eastern European writers to confront the Holocaust from within the moral ambiguities of his own community. His principal English translations, many by Michael Henry Heim, were first published in the United States by Harcourt Brace and later republished by New York Review Books as part of their Classics series. Tisma was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and remains a central figure in postwar Central European fiction. …

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Title
The Book of Blam (First Edition)
Author
Tisma, Aleksandar
Publisher
Harcourt Brace, New York
Publication year
1998
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Fine
Dust jacket
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0151002355
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9780151002351
Edition
1st Edition
Series
Book 7 of 101: New York Review Books Classics
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