Zoran Zivkovic, Author , trans. from the Serbian by Mary Popovic. Ministry of Whimsy $27 (240p) ISBN 978-1-892389-65-7
Time and space are fluid and perspectives are intriguingly alien and off-kilter in this cosmological first novel from Serbian author Zivkovic. Built from multiple intertwined plots fleshed out in short chapters rich with impressionistic images, it...
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Zoran Zivkovic, Author , trans. from the Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosic and Aleksandar Nedeljkovic. PS Publishing $40 (264p) ISBN 978-1-905834-36-5
In this limited edition reprint of three separate, thematically interlinked works, award-winning Serbian author Zivkovic (Impossible Encounters
) explores the concepts that make up the building blocks of literature, reading and writing. “The...
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Zoran Zivkovic, Author , trans. from the Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosic. PS Publishing $30 (263p) ISBN 978-1-905834-30-3
Zivkovic (The Writer/The Book/The Reader
) masterfully filters memory and art through absurdism in this limited edition collection. “Compartments” follows an unnamed man as he is escorted through six rooms on a train, encountering odd...
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Zoran Zivkovic, Author Prime Books $29.95 (196p) ISBN 978-1-894815-87-1
In this limited edition reprint of three separate, thematically interlinked works, award-winning Serbian author Zivkovic (""Impossible Encounters"") explores the concepts that make up the building blocks of literature, reading and writing. The...
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Zoran Zivkovic, Author, Alice Copple-Tosic, Translator , trans. from the SERBIAN by Alice Copple-Tosic. Dalkey Archive $13.95 (217p) ISBN 978-1-56478-412-4
Zivkovic surveys the shifting line between paranoid fantasy and legitimate threat in his mystifying novel. When the unnamed narrator, an undertaker, is invited to a private film screening, he's surprised to see that the movie is one sustained...
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Zoran Zivkovic, Author, Alice Copple-Tosic, Translator , trans. from the Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosic. Aio $23.95 (125p) ISBN 978-1-933083-10-0
Serbian speculative fictionist Zivkovic's latest novel to be released in the U.S. (after 2006's Seven Touches of Music
) isn't so much a literary work to be read as it is one to be reveled in. Like a great work of abstract art, this...
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Zoran Zivkovic, Author, Alice Copple-Tosic, Translator Northwestern University Press $44.95 (81p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1781-5
Embroidering on the conceit of time travel, Zivkovic, a Serb writer in his 50s, presents four episodic tales, stitching them together in the final installment. Each short narrative bears a title that's the occupation of its protagonist, and each...
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