{"product_id":"globetrotter-paperback","title":"Globetrotter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Albahari\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEllen Elias-Bursac\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia addresses such universal themes as exile, disorientation, and obsession\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Displaced from his home more than twenty years ago as Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia descended into war, Serbian author David Albahari found safety in Canada, where this novel was written. In \u003ci\u003eGlobetrotter, \u003c\/i\u003e Albahari deals with the bewilderments of exile and lost identity, themes he has investigated in earlier works. But in this unsettling experimental book he also enters new arenas, where sexual identity and the nature of blame and guilt attract his scrutiny. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Narrated in a single uninterrupted paragraph, the novel takes place in the late 1990s at the Banff Art Centre in the Canadian Rockies. Three men--a painter from Saskatchewan and the narrator of the tale, a writer from Serbia, and a man whose traveling Croatian grandfather long ago jotted his name in a local museum's guest book--become acquainted, then attached, then fatally entangled. On a climactic mountain hike that seethes with jealousy, desire, shame, and guilt, each man must engage in a final struggle. Albahari seizes his reader's attention and never yields it in this remarkable, gripping tale.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Albahari\u003c\/b\u003e, a Serbian writer and translator, has published eleven short-story collections and thirteen novels in Serbian, garnering the Ivo Andric Award for best book of short stories published in Yugloslavia (1982), the NIN Prize for best novel published in Yugoslavia (1996), the Balcanica Award, and the Berlin Bridge Prize, among others. He also has translated into Serbian the works of a host of English-language writers, from Saul Bellow to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Vladimir Nabokov to Sam Shepard. He lives in Alberta, Canada. \u003cb\u003eEllen Elias-Bursac \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers. For her translation of Albahari's novel \u003ci\u003eGötz and Meyer\u003c\/i\u003e, she received ALTA's National Translation Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 7.74 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736845717567,"sku":"9780300201321","price":77.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e9fa3285998147264e947f5f394d9ad1.webp?v=1765148053","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/globetrotter-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}