Daša Drndic – Battle Songs (epub)
General:
Name: Daša Drndic – Battle Songs (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 1.06 MB
Book:
Title: Battle Songs
Author: Daša Drndic
Language: japo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fiction, Literature
Publisher: New Directions
ISBN: 9780811234788
Total pages: 200 str.
Description:
An early novel from the masterful Drndic, Battle Songs is an intimate, ferocious account of her years spent as a refugee in Canada during the Yugoslav Wars
In the 1990s, the unnamed narrator of Battle Songs leaves Yugoslavia with her daughter Sara to Toronto to start a new life. They, along with other refugees, encounter a new country but not a new home. Book editors sell hotdogs, mathematicians struggle to get by on social security, violinists hawk cheap goods on the street. Years after arriving in Canada, when she thinks no one can hear her, Sara still sings in the shower: What can we do to make things better, what can we do to make things better, la-la-la-la.
In true Drndic style, the novel has no one time or place. It is interspersed with stories from the Yugoslav Wars, from Rijeka to Zagreb to Sarajevo-with, as always, the long shadow of the Second World War looming overhead. Her singular layering of details-from lung damage to silk…
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