Tsing (Writings from an Unbound Europe)
Edition: Translated edition
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: October 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780810115682
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Slavic (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / General
Description: "A beautifully written prose work, Tsing is a multi-layered narrative that combines a wholly fictional novel-within-a-novel with an episodic chronicle of the narrator's present as a traveler to and visiting writer in the United States.".

"Much more than an "ordinary" postmodern text, Tsing is a quiet and moving paean to the narrator's deceased father. Beginning with a series of imagined vignettes involving a father and a daughter, Albahari weaves both real and imagined narrative fragments together with considerable skill.

As Albahari's fragments - simple stories about persons approaching each other, spending some time together, and eventually going their separate ways - accumulate, his deft combination of paradox and poetry provides a kaleidoscopic view of memory, love, and loneliness."--BOOK JACKET.