A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste
Dasa Drndic interweaves fiction, reality, history, and memory to terrific effect . . . Drndic attacks history with a novelist's sensibility and has produced a poignant meditation on love and loss, the insanity of war and the legacy of human cruelty.