Doppelganger EPUB
by Dasa Drndic
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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.Described by Dasa Drndic as "my ugly little book," Doppelganger was her personal favorite.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:New Directions
- Publication Date:24/09/2019
- ISBN:9780811228923
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:New Directions
- Publication Date:24/09/2019
- ISBN:9780811228923