Gotz & Meyer

Believing they were being taken to a better camp, Belgrade's Jews would climb into the truck with a sense of relief.

This is a heartbreaking book, sardonic and brutal, written at unrelenting pace with great compassion and wild humour.

A triumph. A testament to the power of the imagination

Indisputably an exceptional novel

A beautiful, soul-searching and genuinely tragi-comic novel

David Albahari was born in Serbia in 1948. He founded, and was for many years the editor in chief of, Pismo, a magazine of world literature. He is also an accomplished translator of Anglo-American literature. He lives in Calgary, Canada.