{"product_id":"belladonna-9780811227216","title":"Belladonna","description":"Andreas Ban, a psychologist who no longer psychologizes, a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. His body is failing him. He sifts through the remnants of his life--his research, books, medical records, photographs--remembering old lovers and friends, the tragedies of WWII, the breakup of Yugoslavia. Ban's memories of Belgrade (which he thought he had left behind) and of Amsterdam (a different world and life) alternate with meditations on hole-ridden time (ebbing away through its perforations), on his measly pension, on growing old and fragile, on the intelligence of rats and the agelessness of lobsters, on deadly nightshade. He tries to push the past away, \"to land on a little island of time in which tomorrow does not exist, in which yesterday is buried.\" Drndic  leafs through the horrors of history with a cold unflinching wit. \"The past is riddled with holes,\" she writes. \"Souvenirs can't help here.\" And they don't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrndic, Dasa:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDasa Drndic\u003c\/strong\u003e (1946-2018) wrote \u003cem\u003eTrieste\u003c\/em\u003e--\"a masterpiece\" (\u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e)--shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and \u003cem\u003eBelladonna\u003c\/em\u003e--\"one of the strangest and strongest books\" (\u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e) --winner of the 2018 Warwick Prize, and EEG--\"a masterpiece\" (Joshua Cohen).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHawkesworth, Celia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eCelia Hawkesworth\u003c\/strong\u003e has translated \u003cem\u003eThe Museum of Unconditional Surrender\u003c\/em\u003e by Dubravka Ugresic, \u003cem\u003eBelladonna\u003c\/em\u003e by Dasa Drndic--shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize--and \u003cem\u003eOmer Pasha Latas\u003c\/em\u003e by the Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andric.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503912849682,"sku":"9780811227216","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b2dc3e5-df31-441b-b7b7-c71c867d070c.jpg?v=1730804082","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/belladonna-9780811227216","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}