Leeches

A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...

Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot

Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history

A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies

Kafka for our times

Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough

David Albahari was born in Serbia and emigrated to Canada in 1994. He is the author of eleven novels and nine collections of short stories. His previous novel, Götz and Meyer , was published in English and won the ALTA Translation Award. A story of his was recently selected for Best European Fiction 2010 , edited by Aleksandar Hemon.