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Doppelgänger
- Title
- Doppelgänger / Daša Drndić ; translated from the Croation by S.D. Curtis & Celia Hawkesworth.
- Author
- Drndić, Daša, 1946-2018
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Books, 2019.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-1150 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 156 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "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 listed 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 Pupi, who dreamed of becoming a sculptor but instead became a chemist and then a spy. As Eileen Battersby wrote, "As he stands, in the zoo, gazing at a pair of rhinos, in a city most likely present-day Belgrade, this battered Everyman feels very alone: 'I would like to tell someone, anyone, I'd like to tell someone: I buried Mother today.'" Pupi sets out to correct his family's crimes by returning silverware to its original Jewish owners through the help of an unlikely friend, a pawnbroker"--
- Uniform Title
- Doppelgänger. English
- Alternative Title
- Doppelgänger.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Note
- "A New Directions paperback original."
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Croatian.
- Contents
- Artur and Isabella / translated by S.D. Curtis -- Pupi / translated by Celia Hawkesworth.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1150
- ISBN
- 9780811228916
- 0811228916
- LCCN
- 2019942436
- OCLC
- 1085165610
- Author
- Drndić, Daša, 1946-2018, author.
- Title
- Doppelgänger / Daša Drndić ; translated from the Croation by S.D. Curtis & Celia Hawkesworth.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Croatian.
- Added Author
- Curtis, S. D., translator.Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1150