Trieste

Name: Trieste
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SKU: 9781780878355
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By Daša Drndic

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Trieste by Daša Drndic is a poignant exploration of history, memory, and the Holocaust through the lens of one family. The novel intricately weaves fiction with historical documents, presenting the devastating impact of World War II on a Jewish woman and her relentless search for the son taken from her during the war. Its layered narrative reveals personal and collective trauma with startling clarity.
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Explore the haunting depths of history and memory as this novel weaves together personal and collective trauma against the backdrop of World War II. You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by narratives that blend fiction and documentary elements, exploring the complexities of identity, loss, and the echoes of the past in the present day.

Trieste

A novel that exposes the abduction of young children during the Second World War, through the extraordinary story of a mother's search for her son.

Description

An old woman sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy. She is waiting to be reunited with her son. He was fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her sixty-two years before by the Nazi authorities during the German occupation.

By focusing on the experiences of one individual, Drndic engages head-on with the traumatic history of WWII and the Holocaust and deals unsparingly with the massacre of Jews in Trieste's concentration camp.

A literary collage comprising photographs, scraps of poetry, interviews, and testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials, Trieste is a formally daring work of immense power and scope.

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Trieste by Daša Drndic is revered as a powerful blend of historical fiction and documentary, lauded for its depth and emotional impact. Critics describe it as both a significant literary achievement and an intense exploration of the Holocaust. The novel is noted for its complexity and humanity, offering readers a profound understanding of the past, while its meticulous research and narrative style receive high praise.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780878355

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 February 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: MacLehose Press

Contributors:

Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 264g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Dasa Drndic is a distinguished Croatian novelist, playwright and literary critic, born in Zagreb in 1946. She spent some years teaching in Canada and gained an MA in Theatre and Communications as part of the Fulbright Programme.

Ellen Elias-Bursac is the leading translator of Serbo-Croat into English. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Gotz and Meyer was awarded the National Translation Award by the American Literary Translators Association in 2006.