Belladonna addresses some of the twentieth century's worst human atrocities in a powerful fusion of fiction and reality, the hallmark of one of Europe's finest contemporary writers. Belladonna (MacLehose Press Editions) ISBN 13: 9780857054302. Andreas Ban stands for a true hero of our times a castaway intellectual of a society which subdues every critical thought under the guise of political correctness. Belladonna Daa Drndi MEMORY HAS BEGUN to overpower Andreas Ban, a recently retired academic and the central character of Croatian writer Daa Drndi’s extraordinary new novel, Belladonna. : Belladonna (MacLehose Press Editions) (9780857054302) by Drndic, Daa and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. In defying illness and old age, Andreas Ban is cynical and powerful, and in his unravelling of his own past and the lives of others, he uncompromisingly lays bare a gamut of taboos. When he retires with a miserable pension and finds out that he is ill, he gains a new perspective on the debris of his life and the lives of his friends. Prize for Literature ** ** Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize ** An excoriating work of fiction that references the twentieth century's darkest hours Andreas Ban is a writer and a psychologist, an intellectual proper, but his world has been falling apart for years. Dasa Drndic è stata una scrittrice croata. One of the truly outstanding novels of recent years EILEEN BATTERSBY, Los Angeles Review of Books ** Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2018** ** Shortlisted for the inaugural E.B.R.D. Belladonna is brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable. Belladonna ’s title is a deadly plant its Latin epigraph warns a society on a suicidal path: Today it’s me, tomorrow.

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