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Doppelganger
Dasa Drndic
Doppelganger
Dasa Drndic
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," Doppelgänger was her personal favorite.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 24, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9780811228916 |
Publishers | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 160 |
Dimensions | 137 × 203 × 13 mm · 204 g |
Language | English |