White shroud / Antanas Škėma ; translated by Karla Gruodis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Škėma, Antanas, 1911-1961, author.

Contributor:

Gruodis, Karla, translator.

Standardized Title:

Balta drobulė. English

Language:

English

Lithuanian

Subjects (All):

Poets--Fiction.

Poets.

Immigrants--Fiction.

Immigrants.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

xvii, 193 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Glasgow, Scotland : Vagabond Voices, 2018.

Summary:

"White Shroud is considered by many as the most important work of modernist fiction in Lithuanian. Drawing heavily on the author's own immigrant experience, this psychological, stream-of-consciousness work tells the story of an emigré poet working as an elevator operator in a large New York hotel during the mid-1950s. The novel moves through sharply contrasting settings and stages in the narrator's life in Lithuania before and during World War II, returning always to New York and the recent immigrant's struggle to adapt to a completely different world."--Page [4] of cover.

Notes:

"First published in 1958 as Balta drobulė"--Title page verso.

Translated from Lithuanian.

ISBN:

1908251840

9781908251848

OCLC:

993635912