ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2010.
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Engleski

Kaya, Belgrade and the Good American - Mirjana Đurđević
Mirjana Đurđević, KAYA, BELGRADE AND THE GOOD AMERICAN
Kaja, Beograd i dobri Amerikanac

Geopoetika, 2010.
301 strana.

Očuvana.


Đurđevićeva je otkrila da je za `Kaju`, dok je pisala, želela da dobije neku nagradu grada Beograda pošto je njen rodni grad jedan od glavnih junaka i da eventualno bude štampan u ediciji `Geopoetike` o gradovima, ali to se nije zbilo već je dobila mnoog više - regionalnu nagradu `Meša Selimović` i ušla je u ediciju proze u prevodu.

The novel Kaya, Belgrade and the Good American by Mirjana Đurđević is a vivid picture of a period, ennobled by robust story-telling. The story-teller, who occupies an ambivalent position – one moment an omniscient observer, the next moment an unnamed character in the story – talks ironically and humorously about a carefree world which is not aware of the oncoming cataclysm that will be caused by the outbreak of Nazism in Germany. The novel conjures up the atmosphere of Belgrade before World War II, and the story centers mostly around the small Kalmyk population which settled there together with the Russians who fled in the face of the October Revolution. At its core, there is an auto-ironic portrait of a not-so-popular authoress, who compensates for her want of productivity with a fashionable life in the Yugoslav capital, participating in local scandals and running her own small detective investigation.

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