Ellen Elias-Bursac Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective," "The Culture of (Self)Harm," and "The Melancholy of Vanishing." But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of the literary world, exploring the past century and all of its violence and turmoil--especially in Yugoslavia, Ugresic's birth country--and providing a direction for the future of feminist writing. One of the greatest thinkers of the past hundred years, Ugresic was one-of-a-kind, who novels and literary essays pushed the bounds of form and content, and A Muzzle for Witches offers the chance to see her at her most raw, and most playful.

An amnesiac writer’s life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point in this stunning English-language debut from an award-winning Croatian author. As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he’s written two well-received books. It’s his third that is as big a failure as his private life. Unable to confine his fabrications to fiction, he’s been abandoned by his girlfriend over his lies. But all Matija has is invention. Especially when it comes to his childhood and the death of his father. Whatever happened to Matija as a young boy, he can’t remember. He feels frightened, angry, and responsible… Now, after years of burying and reinventing his past, Matija must confront it. Longing for connection, he might even win back the love of his life. But discovering the profound fears he has suppressed has its risks. Finally seeing the real world he emerged from could upend it all over again.

Román Hotel Zagorje se odehrává na začátku devadesátých let 20. století, kdy v bývalé Jugoslávii zuří válka. Vyprávění začíná okamžikem, kdy devítiletá hrdinka a její bratr odjíždějí s maminkou z Vukovaru, kam poté vtrhnou Srbové a povraždí velkou část obyvatel. Neúplná rodina pak přežívá v Záhřebu v nejrůznějších ubytovnách a v bytech příbuzných a čeká na zprávy od otce, který zůstal ve Vukovaru. Dospívající dívka se mezitím snaží do té malé škvíry, kterou jí život ve válce nechává, vtěsnat všechny nové poznatky o svém těle, zamilovanosti a bezmoci.

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, waiting to be reunited, after fifty-two years, with her son. He was fathered by a S.S officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the war. Haya's reflections on her family's experiences deal with unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camp at Treiste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials and interviews with second-generation Jews, as well as witness accounts of atrocities that took place on the doorstep