![]() Ban’s memories of Belgrade (which he thought he had left behind) and of Amsterdam (a different world and life) alternate with meditations on hole-ridden time (ebbing away through its perforations), on his measly pension, on growing old and fragile, on the intelligence of rats and the agelessness of lobsters, on deadly nightshade. He sifts through the remnants of his life-his research, books, medical records, photographs-remembering old lovers and friends, the tragedies of WWII, the breakup of Yugoslavia. ![]() Winner of 2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translationįrom the author of the highly acclaimed Trieste, a fierce novel about history, memory, and illnessĪndreas Ban, a psychologist who no longer psychologizes, a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. ![]()
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