| Bait Translated Edition Contributor(s): Albahari, David (Author), Agnone, Peter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810118823 ISBN-13: 9780810118829 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $54.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2001 Annotation: David Albahari is one of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia in the last twenty years. His serious, understated explorations of the self have influenced many writers of his native land's younger generation. The narrator of Bait has just exiled himself to Canada after the collapse of Yugoslavia and the death of his mother. As he listens to a series of audio tapes recorded by the mother years before, the narrator ponders her life and their relationship while simultaneously trying to come to terms with a new life of his own-one of exile and the confusion of a new language and culture. Bait is an exquisitely crafted novel that exhibits the wit and raw honesty Albahari's readers have long admired. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001001064 |
| Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 4.96" W x 8.24" (0.51 lbs) 117 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In self-exile in Canada after the collapse of Yugoslavia and his mother's death, the narrator of Bait is listening to a series of tapes he recorded of his mother years before. As her story is told, he reflects on her life and their relationship, attempting to come to terms with his Jewishness and his own new life in a foreign culture. |