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In the 1990s, the unnamed narrator of Battle Songs leaves Yugoslavia with her daughter Sara to Toronto to start a new life. They, along with other refugees, encounter a new country but not a new home. Book editors sell hotdogs, mathematicians struggle to get by on social security, violinists hawk cheap goods on the street. Years after arriving in Canada, when she thinks no one can hear her, Sara still sings in the shower: What can we do to mak...

A bristling follow-on from Belladonna - shortlisted for both the EBRD Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste

A mesmerising meditation on memory, madness and the lesser known horrors of Nazi Germany, by the author of "Trieste", which was shortlisted for the "Independent" Foreign Fiction Prize.

Two elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year's Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, a Holocaust survivor, are revealed through police dossiers. As they fight loneliness and aging, they take comfort in small things: for Artur, a collection of 274 hats, for Isabella, a family of garden gnomes who live in her apartment. Later, we meet the ill-fated Pu...

Financial Times Book of the Year An urgent new novel about death, war, and memory from the highly acclaimed Croatian writer

FICTION / General

A mesmerising meditation on memory, madness and the lesser known horrors of Nazi Germany.