David Albahari, trans. from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursac´. Restless, $16.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-63206-194-2
Late in the night, a small company of soldiers is dropped off without communications at an isolated checkpoint deep in the forest. Their objective is unclear, as is their enemy. So begins Albahari’s surreal novel, a dark and comically absurd take on
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David Albahari, Author, Tomislav Longinovic, Editor, Ellen Ellas-Bursac, Translator Northwestern University Press $15.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1306-0
""One false move gives rise to a whole story,"" says the ""writer,"" the protagonist of one of the 27 very short stories in this debut collection from Serbian writer Albahari. His stories comes in a jumble of styles, from sensitive portraits of his...
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David Albahari, Author, Peter Agnone, Translator Northwestern University Press $49.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1882-9
David Albahari's Bait (trans. from the Serbian by Peter Agnone) opens with the narrator's attempts to tape-record his mother's voice, her life story. We learn that she has since died and the young man is a Serbian exile living in Canada,...
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David Albahari, Author, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Translator , trans. from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursac. Harcourt $23 (168p) ISBN 978-0-15-101141-4
Embodiments of the banality of evil, Götz and Meyer are two German SS noncommissioned officers who drive a truck in which, over a period of weeks, they gas to death 5,000 Jewish inmates of a Belgrade concentration camp. "They are...
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David Albahari, trans. from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursac, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-101502-3
A marijuana-loving Serbian journalist is drawn into a mystic morass after witnessing a woman getting slapped in this cerebral adventure from Albahari (Snow Man). After the unnamed journalist narrator witnesses the slap on the banks of the Danube, he
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