{"id":3791,"date":"2024-01-02T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/?post_type=product&p=3791"},"modified":"2024-01-02T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:56:53","slug":"canzone-di-guerra","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/clothecenter.com\/istrobooksdev\/product\/canzone-di-guerra\/","title":{"rendered":"Canzone di Guerra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A novella by Da\u0161a Drndi\u0107, translated by Celia Hawkesworth<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-1-912545-926<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tea Radan, the narrator of the novel\u00a0Canzone di Guerra,<\/em>\u00a0reflects on her own past and in doing so, composes a forgotten mosaic of historical events that she wants to first tear apart and then reassemble with all the missing fragments. In front of the readers eyes, a collage of different genres takes place – from (pseudo) autobiography to documentary material and culinary recipes. With them, the author Da\u0161a Drndi\u0107 skillfully explores different perspectives on the issue of emigration, the unresolved history of the Second World War, while emphasizing the absurdity of politics of differences between neighboring nations. The narrator subtly weaves the torturous story of searching for her own identity with a relaxed, sometimes disguised ironic style, which takes the reader surprisingly easily into the world of persecution and the sense of alienation between herself and others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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‘It has become blurb fodder to describe a writer as \u201cessential\u201d, but in the case of Das\u030ca Drndic this can be said with seriousness and certainty. Canzone di Guerra, like her other books, is a work of perennial relevance for the reader and the world. Read everything by her’<\/em><\/p>\n

– Ronan Hession, The Irish Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Far more than one woman\u2019s chatty reckoning with her past,\u00a0Canzone di Guerra\u00a0is a formidable confrontation with justice, responsibility and remembrance, addressing themes of history, identity and migration.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Alice Bloch,\u00a0Times Literary Supplement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Words of praise for the author:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Drndi\u0107\u2019s formidable intelligence and Homeric intention cannot help but thrill and exalt.”
\n\u2014Dustin Illingworth,\u00a0The Paris Review Daily\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Da\u0161a Drndi\u0107, who died last year, was interested in many things\u2014chess, suicide, the intelligence of rats\u2014but chief among them was Nazism and the horrors of WWII. Like Bola\u00f1o\u2019s\u00a02666,\u00a0EEG\u00a0demands we stare directly into the face of darkness.”\u2014Anderson Tepper,\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The 20th century is revealed as a parade of horrors in this harrowing novel from Drndi\u0107 (1946\u20132018), one of Croatia\u2019s most acclaimed contemporary authors\u2026. Riveting.”
\n\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Drndi\u0107 cultivates a visionary art of memory. She rescues the names, and the lives, of the lost. Her writing glows with an incendiary bleakness worthy of Beckett.”\u2014Boyd Tonkin,\u00a0The Arts Desk\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Wry and kindly, funny, angry, informed and intent on the truth, no voice is quite as blisteringly beautiful as that of Drndic. Ban is the witness, the seeker of truth. Drndic, a tenacious collector of personal histories and the names of victims lost in the Holocaust, wrote about many things; for all the darkness, her concerns are life and justice.”\u2014Financial Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Drndi\u0107 has in her own way composed an astonishment that extracts light from darkness.”
\n\u2014The Jewish Daily Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Drndi\u0107 is writing to witness and to make the pain stick. Even at their most lurid, her sentences remain coldly dignified.”\u2014New York Times Book Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Her incisive skill and radical style render potentially grim reading compulsive. She was a voice of\u2013and for\u2013our times.”\u2014Times Literary Supplement<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A novella by Da\u0161a Drndi\u0107, translated by Celia Hawkesworth ISBN: 978-1-912545-926 Tea Radan, the narrator of the novel\u00a0Canzone di Guerra,\u00a0reflects on her own past and in doing so, composes a forgotten mosaic of historical events that she wants to first tear apart and then reassemble with all the missing fragments. In front of the readers …<\/p>\n

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