by David Albahari (Author), Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator)
"Learning Cyrillic" presents a selection of fiction by Serbian master David Albahari written since his departure from Europe. In these twenty short stories, written and published in their original language over the past twenty years, Albahari addresses immigrant life--the need to fit into one's adopted homeland--as well as the joys and terrors of refusing to give up one's essential "strangeness" in the face of an alien culture.
Author Biography
David Albahari was born in Serbia in 1948 and emigrated to Canada in 1994. He is the author of numerous novels and collections of short fiction, including Leeches and Bait. He has also translated many books by contemporary British, American, Australian, and Canadian authors into Serbian. He lives in Calgary, Canada, with his wife and their two children.