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Globetrotter

Globetrotter

Albahari, David
Elias-Bursac, Ellen

Paperback

Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 030020132X
ISBN13: 9780300201321
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Aug 26 2014
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.02 Depth: 7.74
Language: English
One of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia addresses such universal themes as exile, disorientation, and obsession

Easily one of the finest writers of fiction today.--Bill Marx, Arts Fuse

Displaced from his home as Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia descended into war, Serbian author David Albahari found safety in Canada, where this novel was written. In Globetrotter, Albahari deals with the bewilderments of exile and lost identity, themes he has investigated in earlier works. But in this unsettling experimental book he also enters new arenas, where sexual identity and the nature of blame and guilt attract his scrutiny.

Narrated in a single uninterrupted paragraph, the novel takes place in the late 1990s at the Banff Art Centre in the Canadian Rockies. Three men--a painter from Saskatchewan and the narrator of the tale, a writer from Serbia, and a man whose traveling Croatian grandfather long ago jotted his name in a local museum's guest book--become acquainted, then attached, then fatally entangled. On a climactic mountain hike that seethes with jealousy, desire, shame, and guilt, each man must engage in a final struggle. Albahari seizes his reader's attention and never yields it in this remarkable, gripping tale.

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