Title: Belladonna
Description: "From the author of the highly acclaimed Trieste, a fierce novel about history, memory, and illness. Andreas Ban, a psychologist who does not psychologize anymore and a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. He sifts through the remnants of his life--his research, books, photographs--remembering old lovers and friends, the events of WWII, and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Ban's memories of Belgrade, Amsterdam, and Toronto alternate with meditations on the mental faculties of rats, a depressed arctic fox, and the agelessness of lobsters. He tries to push the past away, to "land on a little island of time in which tomorrow does not exist, in which yesterday is buried." Drndic leafs through the horrors of history with a cold unflinching wit. "The past is riddled with holes," she writes. "Souvenirs can't help here."--
Subjects: Fiction, Memory, World War, 1939-1945, History, Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Yugoslavia, fiction, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States, HISTORY / Jewish, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01180924
Places: Yugoslavia
Time periods: 20th century