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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Albahari, David (1948-2023)
Titre(s) : Leeches [Texte imprimé] / David Albahari ; translated from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Traduction de : Pijavice
Publication : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (309 page) ; 22 cm
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Elias-Bursać, Ellen. Traducteur
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-15-101502-3. - ISBN 0151015023 (rel.)
EAN 9780151015023
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454226201
Notice n° :
FRBNF45422620
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Résumé : "The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our protagonist, a single man, writes
a regular op-ed column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time with
his best friend, smoking pot and talking about sex, politics, and life in general.
One day on the shore of the Danube he spots a man slapping a beautiful woman. Intrigued,
he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of
her. A few days later he receives a mysterious manuscript whose contents seem to mutate
each time he opens it. To decipher the manuscript - a collection of fragments on the
Kabbalah and the history of the Jews of Zemun and Belgrade - he contacts an old schoolmate,
now an eccentric mathematician, and a group of men from the Jewish community. As the
narrator delves deeper into arcane topics, he begins to see signs of anti-Semitism,
past and present, throughout the city and he feels impelled to denounce it. But his
increasingly passionate columns erupt in a scandal culminating in murder" [source
éditeur]
