Apricots from Chernobyl - Softcover

Novakovich, Josip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555972128 ISBN 13: 9781555972127

Verlag: Graywolf Press,U.S., 1995

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Apricots from Chernobyl is a collection of beautifully crafted narratives on life in the former Yugoslavia, and subsequently in America, by widely published author and essayist Josip Novakovich. Exploring topics that include emigration, definition of borders, societal diversity, and the decay of religion, Novakovich's narratives are approachable and engaging. Whether describing his feelings of apprehension upon approaching a boarder, or the difficulties encountered when writing in a second "tongue," Novakovich is fresh, wry, and consistently entertaining. Apricots from Chernobyl offers a candid portrayal of global existence, skillfully blending its sometimes brutal but often ironic and humorous realities.

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Josip Novakovich moved from Croatia to the United States at the age of twenty. He has won many writing awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram Merrill award, a Vogelstein fellowship, and the Cohen/Ploughshares award. His prose has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Pushcart Prize XV and XIV, Paris Review, Threepenny, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and elsewhere. Story Press has recently published his Fiction Writer's Workshop. He teaches writing at the University of Cincinnati.

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"Leaving your motherland for the first time is a rite of passage, a sort of birth: You establish your being-on-your-own. Abroad you find a precise, concrete, artificial, alienated fantasy land in which the trains run punctually and without clanking, in which all the reality as you know it has been scrubbed away, the friction of matter is gone, and gloss shines and glares at you. You drift and slide like a child left on a hockey rink for the first time."--from Apricots from Chernobyl

Apricots from Chernobyl is a collection of beautifully crafted narratives on life in the former Yugoslavia, and subsequently in America, by widely published author and essayist Josip Novakovich. Exploring topics that include emigration, definition of borders, societal diversity, and the decay of religion, Novakovich's narratives are approachable and engaging. Whether describing his feelings of apprehension upon approaching a boarder, or the difficulties encountered when writing in a second "tongue," Novakovich is fresh, wry, and consistently entertaining. Apricots from Chernobyl offers a candid portrayal of global existence, skillfully blending its sometimes brutal but often ironic and humorous realities.

"It is the devoted accuracy of Apricots from Chernobyl that gives this book its nightmarish surreality. Calmly, almost diffidently, Josip Novakovich displays for us the wrenching despair that results from the dissolution of societies. These pages are powerful and important."--Fred Chappell

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1555972128
• ISBN 13: 9781555972127
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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