{"product_id":"trieste-by-dasa-drndic","title":"'Trieste' by Daša Drndić","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"532\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eDaša Drndić's \u003cem data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"158\"\u003eTrieste\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the defining European novels of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"532\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eCentred 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 \u003cem data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"428\"\u003eLebensborn\u003c\/em\u003e project through an unsettling blend of fiction, archival documents, photographs and historical records.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"534\" data-end=\"1019\"\u003eOriginally published in Croatian in 2007, \u003cem data-start=\"576\" data-end=\"585\"\u003eTrieste\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"1067\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, paperback, published by MacLehose Press in 2012. Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać. Very good condition with light shelf wear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45754309214291,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Screenshot2026-07-01at1.50.57pm.png?v=1782877882","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/trieste-by-dasa-drndic","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}