Dasa Drndic

"Originally published in Croatian as EEG by Fraktura in 2016. Published in arrangement with MacLehose Press, London."

E.E.G.

Doppelgänger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of "doubles" (famously explored by Stevenson, Dostoyevsky and others), and how an individual is perpetually caught between their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society. 'Arthur and Isabella' is a story of the relationship between two elderly people who meet on New Year's Eve -- a romantic encounter which turns into a grotesque portrayal of the loneliness of old age. The second story 'Pupi' -- a strange mirror of the first -- centres on the life of a man who ends up on the streets and associates only with street-sellers and the rhinoceroses in the zoo. Together these tales create the highly original atmosphere that Drndic is famous for in all her works.

Doppelgänger

An old Italian woman seeks a reunion with her son, fathered by an SS officer and taken away by German authorities 62 years ago while she remembers and discusses the atrocities committed in Northern Italy during World War II. 15,000 first printing.

A Novel

Trieste

Celia Hawkesworth

Battle Songs

Leica format

Belladonna

Ein hochaktueller Roman uber den Zustand unserer Welt. ANdreas Ban ist ein Psychoanalytiker, der nicht mehr analysiert, und ein Schriftsteller, der nicht mehr schreibt. EIn echter Intellektueller, dessen Welt seit Jahren mehr und mehr verfallt, die nur noch aus Erinnerungen besteht, an Freunde und Geliebte, aber auch an die Schrecken des 20. JAhrhunderts. EIne Parabel uber die Tucken des Alterns in unserer gnadenlosen modernen Welt und einen wahren Helden unserer Zeit: einen vergessenen, verstoSSenen Intellektuellen, der in einer Gesellschaft, die ewige Jugend predigt und kritische Gedanken unterdruckt, zu leben und denken versucht.

In Italy, an elderly mother awaits a reunion with the son stolen from her by the Nazis—“A darkly hypnotic kaleidoscope of a book” (The Jewish Daily Forward). Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer and stolen from her by the German authorities as part of Himmler’s clandestine Lebensborn project. Tedeschi reflects on her Catholicized Jewish family’s experiences, in a narrative that deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, and to eyewitness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. From this broad collage of material and memory arises the staggering chronicle of Nazi occupation in northern Italy that “explores the 20th century’s darkest chapter in an original way . . . an exceptional reading experience” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

Dasa Drndic

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