David Albahari

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• Pogovor

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  NIN 2021 · Shortlist

  Pogovor

  AITitle translated by AI:“Afterword”

  David Albahari · 73 when first published

  Novel · 108 pages

• Danas je sreda

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  NIN 2017 · Shortlist

  Danas je sreda

  AITitle translated by AI:“Today Is Wednesday”

  David Albahari · 69 when first published

  Novel · 155 pages · Family, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:A man from Zemun on the threshold of old age devotes himself to caring for his elderly father, who has Parkinson's disease, and as the father's body fails, his past comes to light.

• Životinjsko carstvo

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  NIN 2014 · Shortlist

  Životinjsko carstvo

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Animal Kingdom”

  David Albahari · 66 when first published

  Novel · 126 pages · Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:In the early 1970s a conscript, a frightened conformist who played a small part in the 1968 student protests, serves in an army barracks in Banja Luka, where a dark, violent schemer draws him into a closed little group.

• Kontrolni punkt

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  NIN 2011 · Shortlist

  Checkpoint

  Kontrolni punkt

  David Albahari · 63 when first published

  Novel · 208 pages · War, Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:Soldiers manning a checkpoint in an unnamed war, set outside any specific time or place, are put to the test of humanity by bizarre, tragicomic and often morbid situations, without knowing who is attacking whom.

• Pijavice

  In English

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  Leeches

  Pijavice

  David Albahari · 57 when first published

  Novel · 309 pages · Politics, Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:A young newspaper columnist witnesses a strange scene on the Zemun riverbank and starts his own investigation, which leads him to a mysterious young Jewish woman and a manuscript of kabbalistic texts.

• Svetski putnik

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  NIN 2001 · Shortlist

  Globetrotter

  Svetski putnik

  David Albahari · 53 when first published

  Novel · 216 pages · Migration, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:A Canadian narrator watches two men from the former Yugoslavia, Daniel Atijas, who fascinates him, and a man from the other side of the war, from Croatia, and through them faces how little anyone can grasp of the Balkans.