The Great War by Aleksandar Gatalica
One of the very few novels about WWI to have reached the UK market from the Eastern Front. Winner of every literary prize in Serbia upon its publication, The Great War is author Aleksandar Gatalica's opum magnus; following the lives and deaths of spies, singers and soldiers from all warring sides, as each is drawn into this world-changing conflict
'A whirlpool of a book that draws in the reader, moving ambitiously across place, class and profession yet tying all into the dreadful pull of the first global conflictA war that began in the Balkans now has a fitting literary epitaph from a giant among Balkan writers.' - Tim Butcher,bestselling British writer and author of The Trigger 'This is a novel with a hundred faces, which all together make up a diverging and multi-layered story about World War I. Here, there is no separation between two worlds: the fictional and the real. Borislav Pekic would have added that the Spirit of History and the poetical content of the past is a predominating content of any successful literary work. 'The Great War' belongs to this category of work.' Petar Pijanovic, "Politika" magazine
Aleksandar Gatalica is one of Serbia's foremost contemporary authors. He is also a translator (from Ancient Greek), music critic and editor. He has published six novels and as many collections of short stories, and also a guide to Belgrade for Foreigners. He is the editor of pages on world literature (Danas daily), editor of Blic knjiga (literary supplement), editor of Serbian PEN Centre editions, assistant art director of Madlenianum Opera and Theatre, editor in National Broadcast Network Serbia. Presently, Gatalica hold the position of the General manager of Foundation of National Library of Serbia.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781908236203 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908236205 |
| Title | The Great War |
| Author | Aleksandar Gatalica |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Istros Books |
| Year published | 2014-11-11 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Winner of Ninova nagrada (NIN Award) 2012, Winner of Mesa Selimovic Award 2012 |
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