{"product_id":"doppelg-nger","title":"Doppelg?nger","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Dasa Drndic as \"my ugly little book,\" \u003cem\u003eDoppelgänger\u003c\/em\u003e was her personal favorite. \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003eCurtis, S. D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eS. D. Curtis\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Editor-in-Chief of Istros Books.\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":50328664277266,"sku":"9780811228916","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_347d3332-0796-4bc6-b4c5-9fc1a439054e.jpg?v=1727747290","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/doppelg-nger","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}