Doppelganger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of doubles and how an individual is perpetually caught between their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society.
Daša Drndić Book order
August 10, 1946 – June 5, 2018
Daša Drndić was a distinguished Croatian author whose works delved into complex themes with a singular style. Her writing, marked by profound intellect and literary prowess, often explored historical and cultural landscapes with incisive insight. Drndić was noted for her ability to weave narrative threads, crafting works that resonate with readers and prompt deep contemplation. Her contribution to literature stands out for its originality and dedication to probing uncharted literary territories.
- 2018
- 2018
A bristling follow-on from Belladonna - shortlisted for both the EBRD Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
- 2017
Belladonna
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
You read this generous, angry, and candid novel of ideas in a continuing state of wondrous disquiet . . . Belladonna is brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable. Dasa Drndic achieves her mission, proving that silence cannot erase the past. Memory stalks us, and always triumphs Eileen Battersby Los Angeles Review of Books 20180129
- 2013
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