Daša Drndić's Trieste is one of the defining European novels of the twenty-first century.

Centred on Haya Tedeschi, an elderly woman living near Trieste, it unfolds into an extraordinary excavation of the Holocaust, following the Nazi programme of racial experimentation and the Lebensborn project through an unsettling blend of fiction, archival documents, photographs and historical records.

Originally published in Croatian in 2007, Trieste resists the comforts of conventional historical fiction. Drndić insists that history is never past: names, lists, testimonies and forgotten lives interrupt the narrative, forcing the reader to confront the bureaucratic machinery of genocide and the persistence of collective amnesia. An uncompromising, formally inventive novel that sits alongside W.G. Sebald and Alexander Kluge as one of the essential works of documentary fiction.

First UK edition, paperback, published by MacLehose Press in 2012. Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać. Very good condition with light shelf wear.