Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust (P.S.) - Softcover

Novakovich, Josip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060583991 ISBN 13: 9780060583996

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2005

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Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever.

Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the New York Times for writing fiction that has "the crackle of authenticity, like the bite of breaking glass." In his new collection, he explores a war–torn Balkan world in which a schoolchild's innocence evaporates in a puff of cannon smoke, lust replaces love, and the joy of survival overrides all other pleasures.

As Serb, Croat, and Bosnian Muslim armies clash in the cities and countryside of the former Yugoslavia, it's hard to tell the front lines from the home front. The characters in Infidelities––soldiers and civilians alike––are caught in the ridiculous, often cruelly whimsical contradictions of war and the paranoia and folly of those who conduct it. In "Ribs," a Croatian woman whose husband has already been taken by the war will go to any length to keep her son out of the army, including sleeping with the draft officer, a tryst that leads to an unexpected, and disturbing, spiritual vision. A Buddhist soldier in the Bosnian Muslim military isly accused of being an informer to the enemy Serbs after his detachment ambushes itself in "Hail." A draft dodger is in the hospital for a transplant, in "A Purple Heart," when a high–ranking Croatian general steals the heart for himself (and dies) while the dodger suddenly discovers a new thirst for life.

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Josip Novakovich has been a Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His stories have been published in The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Ploughshares, among other periodicals. A resident of central Pennsylvania, he teaches at Penn State University.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0060583991
• ISBN 13: 9780060583996
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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