Trieste

Dasa Drndic

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English

Maclehose Press
01 May 2013

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Haya Tedeschi surrounds herself with memories and photographs, reflecting on the past and the absence of her child who was stolen during WWII. This novel constantly blurs the line between fact and fiction. Voices interject into the narrative, crying out to be heard, whether it’s the Lebersborn children, transcripts from war crime trials or the distant echo of so many lost souls. Although at times not a comfortable read, this is a deeply engaging one. I found myself pausing intermittingly, taking time to reflect upon the enormity of what I had read. For me, this is easily the book of 2012. Greg

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the War as part of Himmler's clandestine 'Lebensborn' project, which strove for a 'racially pure' Germany. Haya's reflection on her Catholicized Jewish family's experiences deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, as well as witness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. A broad collage of material is assembled, and the lesser-known horror of Nazi occupation in northern Italy is gradually unveiled. Written in immensely powerful language, and employing a range of astonishing conceptual devices, Trieste is a novel like no other. Dasa Drndic has produced a shattering contribution to the literature of our twentieth-century history.

By: Dasa Drndic
Imprint: Maclehose Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781780878355
ISBN 10: 1780878354
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 May 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.wardmccandlish.co.uk/AuthorPhoto/QuercusPublishing/Dasa_Drndic.jpg

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.

Reviews for Trieste

'Although this is fiction, it is also a deeply researched historical documentary ... It is a masterpiece' A.N. Wilson, Financial Times. 'A literary tour-de-force' Amanda Hopkinson, Independent. 'The multifarious elements that comprise Haya's story and its grand context are an incredibly dense and potent mixture' Daniel Dahn, Independent on Sunday. 'Original, moving and beautifully translated and produced' The Guardian.