Daša Drndic 
Battle Songs [EPUB ebook] 

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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 scarves to the family budget to old romances—offers an almost unbearable closeness to the characters and their moment in history. “Wry and kindly, funny, angry, informed and intent on the truth, no voice is quite as blisteringly beautiful as that of Drndic” (Financial Times).

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Daša Drndic (1946-2018) wrote Trieste—’splendid, absorbing’ (The New York Times)—shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; Belladonna—’one of the strangest and strongest books’ (TLS)— winner of the 2018 Warwick Prize; and EEG—’a masterpiece’ (Joshua Cohen). She also wrote plays, criticism, radio plays, and documentaries.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 192 ● ISBN 9780811234795 ● Tamanho do arquivo 1.2 MB ● Tradutor Celia Hawkesworth ● Editora New Directions ● País US ● Publicado 2023 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 8700593 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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