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Tsing / David Albahari ; translated from the Serbian by the author.
Van Pelt Library PG1419.1.L335 C5613 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albahari, David, 1948-2023.
- Series:
- Writings from an unbound Europe
- Standardized Title:
- Čink. English
- Language:
- Croatian
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 99 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- A beautifully written prose work, Tsing is a multi-layered narrative that combines a wholly fictional novel-within-a-novel with an episodic chronicle of the narrator's present as a traveler to and visiting writer in the United States. Much more than an "ordinary" postmodern text, Tsing is a quiet and moving paean to the narrator's deceased father. Beginning with a series of imagined vignettes involving a father and a daughter, Albahari weaves both real and imagined narrative fragments together with considerable skill. As Albahari's fragments - simple stories about persons approaching each other, spending some time together, and eventually going their separate ways - accumulate, his deft combination of paradox and poetry provides a kaleidoscopic view of memory, love, and loneliness.
- ISBN:
- 0810115689
- OCLC:
- 38021617
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