Leica format / Daša Drndić ; translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drndić, Daša, 1946-2018.

Contributor:

Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942- translator.

Language:

Croatian

English

Subjects (All):

Historical fiction.

Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.

Identity (Psychology).

Human experimentation in medicine--Fiction.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Genre:

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Maclehose Press, 2015.

Language Note:

Translated from the Croatian.

Summary:

A woman meets a stranger who tells her her identity is a lie. 772 or 789 children's brains rest silently in jars. A traveller comes to a quotidian city, unknowingly approaching her past. This is a bedazzling kaleidoscopic novel, stitching together fact and fiction, history and memory, words and images into a heart-breaking collage that manages to look askance at the blinding horror of history. Ranging across themes of memory, loss, inheritance and storytelling, the author borrows from every tradition of writing to weave together a fragmented narrative of love and disease, in a novel that its very format raises penetrating and unanswerable questions about history, and the processes by which we describe and remember it.

ISBN:

9780857053268

0857053264

9780857053275

0857053272

OCLC:

912241110