The second book / Muharem Bazdulj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bazdulj, Muharem, 1977-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Writings from an unbound Europe

Standardized Title:

Druga knjiga. English

Language:

Bosnian

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

142 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

2nd book

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2005.

Summary:

The Second Book, Muharem Bazdulj's collection of linked stories, introduces a promising young Bosnian writer to the English-language audience. Bazdulj has broken from the pack of new Eastern European writers influenced by innovators such as Danilo Kis, Milan Kundera, and Jorge Luis Borges. Employing a light touch, a daring antinationalist tone, and the kind of ambition that inspires nothing less than a rewriting of Bosnian and Yugoslavian history, Bazdulj weaves the imagined realities of history into fiction and fiction into history: Nietzsche, on the edge of madness, spends a number of hazy mornings contemplating his sweeping ideas and life's tiny details; the young pharaoh Amenhotep IV embarks on a search for Egypt's only true god; brothers William and Henry James enact age-old sibling conflicts.

Contents:

Tears in Turin

The poet

The hot sun's golden circle

A twilight encounter

The story of two brothers

Fiat Iustitia

The second book

The bridge on land

The threshold of maturity

The red flower for Tomislav Podgorać.

Notes:

Translated from Bosnian.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0810119358

0810119366

OCLC:

55085766

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description