A novel in the documentary style of the German writer W. We might call the novel experimental because of some of the techniques the writer employs. This one story is freighted with all the pain and detail of its myriad predecessors. aching with vivid absences, losses, disappearances. In this documentary fiction, the private and public happen at once, large and small scale, imagined with just the same biographical precision. Sebald, and the novel's relentlessly uncomfortable mood might be Drndic's point: the historical crimes were great, and complicity of almost everyone was enormous.Īlthough this is fiction, it is also deeply researched historical documentary. These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory.Īn epic, heart-rending saga from the Croatian novelist about a forgotten corner of the Nazi Holocaust.A brilliant artistic and moral achievement worth reading.ĭrndic's themes, use of history, and narrative technique invite favorable comparisons to W.G. Drndic is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick.
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