Tsing (Writings From An Unbound Europe)

Tsing (Writings From An Unbound Europe)

David Albahari, David Albahari (Translated by)
$14.95
Publication Date: October 15th, 1997
Publisher:
Northwestern University Press
ISBN:
9780810115682
Pages:
99

Description

Beginning with a series of imagined vignettes involving a father and daughter, David Albahari weaves both real and imagined narrative fragments together to create a multilayered narrative combining a wholly fictional novel with a chronicle of the narrator's visit to the United States. As the fragments accumulate, his deft combination of paradox and poetry provides a kaleidoscopic view of memory, love, and loneliness.

About the Author

DAVID ALBAHARI was born in 1948 in the Serbian village of Pec. He is the founder and was for many years the editor-in-chief of Pismo, a magazine of world literature. He is also an accomplished translator of Anglo-American literature. His previous novels include, Words are Something Else (Northwestern University Press, 1996) and Tsing (Northwestern University Press, 1997).
 

Praise for Tsing (Writings From An Unbound Europe)

"In this extraordinarily tender metafiction...imagined scenes between a father and daughter somehow add up to both a novel and an essay on the terrible sadness of memory . . . " —Book Forum

"A wise book, a book of meditation, not so much on death but rather on the nature of absence . . . a significant work of fiction, a work that will certainly reward its reader's patience and lead him or her to reflect on the difficult question of who we are in relation to our parent, especially after the parent's death." —World Literature Today

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