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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger

Curtis, S. D.
Drndic, Dasa
Hawkesworth, Celia

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ISBN10: 0811228916
ISBN13: 9780811228916
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Sep 24 2019
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

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 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.

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