Gotz & Meyer

'A beautiful, soul-searching and genuinely tragi-comic novel' Daily Telegraph

This is a heartbreaking book, sardonic and brutal, written at unrelenting pace with great compassion and wild humour.

A triumph. A testament to the power of the imagination

A beautiful, soul-searching and genuinely tragi-comic novel

David Albahari was born in Serbia in 1948. He founded, and was for many years the editor in chief of, Pismo, a magazine of world literature. He is also an accomplished translator of Anglo-American literature. He lives in Calgary, Canada.

Believing they were being taken to a better camp, Belgrade's Jews would climb into the truck with a sense of relief. Mainly women, children and the elderly, they expected a long and uncomfortable trip but, after crossing the border, their journey would come to an abrupt end.  Here the drivers would get out and attach a hose from the exhaust to the back of the truck-Over the course of a few months in 1942 the Nazis systematically exterminated the majority of Serbia's Jews using carbon monoxide and specially designed trucks. The only information the narrator of this bleakly comic novel can find about the summer when his relatives disappeared is the names of the truck drivers: G-tz and Meyer. During his research he becomes fascinated by the unknowable characters and daily lives of these men. But his imagination proves a dangerous force, and his obsession with the past threatens to overwhelm him.

David Albahari

Ellen Elias-Bursac

Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot

Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history

A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies

Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough

A young journalist sees a man slap a beautiful woman on the shore of the Danube. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later a mysterious package arrives. As he delves deeper trying to decipher the contents, he finds himself unravelling a terrible conspiracy that seems destined to end in tragedy...

David Albahari

Praise for Leeches

Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot

Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history

A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies

Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot

Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history

A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies

Intense...there is a genuine sense of danger and a fascinatingly twisty plot

Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history

A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies

Books by David Albahari

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