Globetrotter

by Albahari, David

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Title Statements

Full title :Globetrotter / David Albahari ; translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać.

Summary

One of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia addresses such universal themes as exile, disorientation, and obsession 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 Globetrotter, 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. 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300210279, 0300210272
oclc:ocn885336332
LC Classification:PG1419.1.L335
Dewey Decimal:891.8/2354

Cover; Contents; Globetrotter; Afterword: Only Banff Is Real.

Subjects

Alberta -- Banff Banff (Alta.) -- Fiction Fiction FICTION -- General FICTION / Literary Painters Painters -- Fiction Peintres -- Romans, nouvelles, etc