Early Sorrows
by Danilo Kiš 
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A group of linked stories that memorialize Danilo Kis's early years in a Yugoslavian village. The 19 pieces cover his crucial first bereavements and humiliations, striking various tones - from pastorals to exercises in humour.Tags
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Preciosa prosa poetica. Historias breves con un toque magico y atemporal de un niño durante la segunda guerra mundial (aunque la guerra es solo un decorado y no el tema del libro).
Jan 31, 2010Spanish
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- Canonical title
- Early Sorrows
- Original title
- Rani jadi
- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- Andreas Sam; Anna Sam; Maria Sam; Eduard Sam; Dingo
- Epigraph
- Was it thus in the days of Noah? Ah, no. --Anon., seventeenth century
- Dedication
- To Mirjana
- First words
- In autumn when the winds come up, the leaves of the chestnut tree fall swiftly, stem first.
The flickering shadows dissolve the outlines of things and break up the surfaces of the cube, the walls and ceiling move to and fro to the rhythm of the jagged flame, which by turns flares up and dies down as though about to ... (show all)go out. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)At times I wake up not knowing where I am; I hear my compatriots calling to one another and an accordion blaring from a cassette player in a car parked beneath my window.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)P.S. It is better to be among the persecuted than among the persecutors.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.8 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)
- LCC
- PG1419.21 .I8 .Z474 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Serbo-Croatian
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- 12 — Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 20
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