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Bajac, Vladislav

 
9781908236142: Hamam Balkania

Synopsis

In the tradition of great modern Serbian novelists, Bajac twists and weaves a tale between old and new, modern and rusted, East and West, water and fire. Its not hard to see why this historical novel has been translated into 15 languages and become a bestseller in its home country.

Bajacs tale dances between its two plots and threads as if it were a couple dancing with no space between them. His prose is at times convoluted, and at times poetic, but always gripping, and fiercely organized.

The authors home country of Serbia is fascinated with its Ottoman roots, and this novel is no exception. Bajac takes the lives of ancient figures and weaves them together with flashing, real, and dirty characters from Western societys recent past his stories at times dipping their pen into the well of memoir. Bajac has rubbed elbows with Leonard Cohen, and shared words and stages with literary greats none of that is lost on the reader here.

Two stories collide in the readers mind, not on the pages, as if learning two different histories from two separate professors. This is at once a story of friendship, and a book of warning: do we really know that which we believe we know so well?

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia in 1954. Studied Faculty of Philology, Department of Yugoslav and World Literature, Belgrade University. Vladislav Bajac has also worked as a journalist and translator. Currently he is a writer and a publisher. He is the author of eleven books - six novels, three books of short stories, two books of poetry. He is also founder and manager of Centre for Geopoetics Publishing in 1993, and at this pressent time, the director of Geopoetics Publishing, Belgrade. Bajac also served as Vice-president of the Serbian PEN Centre (2008-2010).

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