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The Book Of Blam

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The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grun, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a stove fitter; and Arthur Spitzer, a grocer, who played amateur soccer and had non-Jewish friends; and Sandor Vertes, a lawyer who was a Communist. All dead. As are his younger sister and his best friend, a Serb, both of whom joined the resistance movement; and his mother and father in the infamous Novi Sad raid in January 1942--when the Hungarian Arrow Cross executed 1,400 Jews and Serbs on the banks of the Danube and tossed them into the water. Blam lives. So long as he does, the war will never be over for him. Like The Use of Man, and part of Tisma's lauded Novi Sad Trilogy, The Book of Blam is a searing look at the spiritual devastation of war.

Author Biography:

Aleksandar Tisma (1924-2003) was a fiction writer, journalist, and poet who grew up in and lived much of his life in Novi Sad. His other novels include The Use of Man (available from NYRB Classics) and Kapo. Michael Henry Heim (1943 - 2012) was a translator and professor of Slavic languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. He translated the NYRB Classic, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, by Bohumil Hrabal. Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. The Lunatic, his latest volume of poetry, and The Life of Images, a book of his selected prose, were published in April 2015.
Release date NZ
February 9th, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Edition
Main
Pages
288
Dimensions
127x203x12
ISBN-13
9781590179208
Product ID
23071908

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