Globetrotter Paperback / softback
by David Albahari
Part of the The Margellos World Republic of Letters series
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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.â€â€”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. Â 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:09/10/2014
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- ISBN:9780300201321
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:09/10/2014
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- ISBN:9780300201321