Böcker av 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.

A woman searches for identity amidst the deviation of war and the dislocation of immigration. Drndic's characteristic irony and sense of the weight of history set the prose alight. A book for all times.

A bristling follow-on from Belladonna - shortlisted for both the EBRD Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

A timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed Trieste

Doppelganger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of "doubles" and how an individual is perpetually caught between their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society.

A mesmerising meditation on memory, madness and the lesser known horrors of Nazi Germany.

A novel that exposes the abduction of young children during the Second World War, through the extraordinary story of a mother's search for her son.