Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kis

Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kis

"Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kis's Garden, Ashes is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century." Aleksandar Hemon, from the introduction

"Kiš’s work is gripping, a set of clever modernist experiments with a frequent core of deadly seriousness; imagine Kafka encountering the Holocaust, or Borges visiting the Gulag without losing a sense of humor and you have a rough approximation of Kiš’s accomplishment" — The Daily Beast
"...preserves the honour of literature" —Susan Sontag

"Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kiš's Garden, Ashes is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century." —Aleksandar Hemon, from the introduction

"Garden, Ashes will influence the most current trends in the art of the literary avant-garde—so much so that it may even shape the course of the novel." —Le Figaro

"In Kiš's case . . . it is the consistent quality of the local prose that counts. It is how, sentence by sentence, the song is built, and immeasurable meanings meant. It is the rich regalia of his rhetoric that leads us to acknowledge his authority. On his page, trappings are not trappings, but sovereignty itself." —New York Review of Books

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of "The Lazarus Project, "which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: "The Question of Bruno"; "Nowhere Man", which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "Love and Obstacles". He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9781564783264
ISBN 10	156478326X
Title	Garden, Ashes
Author	Danilo Kis
Series	Eastern European Literature Series
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dalkey Archive Press
Year published	2003-11-13
Number of pages	170
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