Ellen Elias-Bursac Books

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, waiting to be reunited, after fifty-two years, with her son. He was fathered by a S.S officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the war. Haya's reflections on her family's experiences deal with unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camp at Treiste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, as well as witness accounts of atrocities that took place on the doorstep

An amnesiac writer’s life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point in this stunning English-language debut from an award-winning Croatian author. As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he’s written two well-received books. It’s his third that is as big a failure as his private life. Unable to confine his fabrications to fiction, he’s been abandoned by his girlfriend over his lies. But all Matija has is invention. Especially when it comes to his childhood and the death of his father. Whatever happened to Matija as a young boy, he can’t remember. He feels frightened, angry, and responsible… Now, after years of burying and reinventing his past, Matija must confront it. Longing for connection, he might even win back the love of his life. But discovering the profound fears he has suppressed has its risks. Finally seeing the real world he emerged from could upend it all over again.

U ljeto 1991. devetogodišnja djevojčica odlazi iz Vukovara, ostavljajući roditelje u gradu u kojem počinje rat. Roman Hotel Zagorje priča je o njezinu odrastanju tijekom sedam godina prognaništva, o neprekidnoj borbi za nekoliko kvadrata u kojima će živjeti s majkom i bratom, o stalnom iščekivanju vijesti o ocu. Ali ovo nije mračna knjiga. Junakinji Ivane Simić Bodrožić ne nedostaje ni humora ni duha, a njezinu odrastanju ništa od onoga od čega su odrastanja stvorena: pisanje pisama političarima i obilaženje ministarstava isprepliće se ovdje s dječjim nježnostima i okrutnostima, prvim izlascima, prvim dečkima... kao i sa sudbinama onih s kojima je prognanička obitelj ukrstila putove, cijelom jednom živopisnom galerijom likova koji vjerno iscrtavaju sliku Hrvatske tih godina. Glavna junakinja mijenja se i odrasta, kao i cijelo društvo oko nje, ali premda je to odrastanje bolno, u njemu ima i smijeha i zaigranosti i - ljubavi. Govoreći o ljudima ne prešučujući, o dobru i zlu ne imenujući ih, Ivana Simić Bodrožić napisala je iznimno snažnu i dramatičnu priču koja će nam vratiti nešto od izgubljene nevinosti.

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective," "The Culture of (Self)Harm," and "The Melancholy of Vanishing." But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of the literary world, exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoil--especially in Yugoslavia, Ugresic's birth country--and providing a direction for the future of feminist writing. One of the greatest thinkers of the past hundred years, Ugresic was one-of-a-kind, who novels and literary essays pushed the bounds of form and content, and A Muzzle for Witches offers the chance to see her at her most raw, and most playful.