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The Apology and the Last Days: A Novel
Borislav Pekic
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Description for The Apology and the Last Days: A Novel
Paperback. "First published in Serbian under the title Odbrana i posledjni dani, c1977." Translator(s): Misic, Bojan. Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe S. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188.
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekic, one of the former Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard during the war, saved from drowning, thus making him vulnerable ... Read more
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekic, one of the former Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard during the war, saved from drowning, thus making him vulnerable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Series
Writings from an Unbound Europe S.
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810128231
SKU
V9780810128231
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About Borislav Pekic
Borislav Pekic (1930–1993) was born in Montenegro, Yugoslavia. In 1948 he was accused of organizing a student conspiracy against the state and sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor. He was pardoned in 1954. Ten years later he won a major Yugoslav literary prize for The Time of Miracles. One of Yugoslavia’s most acclaimed writers, he lived in England from ... Read more
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