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Leeches

Leeches

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...

Reviews

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

    Kate Saunders, The Times

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

    Claire Allfree, Metro

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

    Die Zeit

  • Kafka for our times

    Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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

    La Vie Littéraire

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About the Author

David Albahari

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.

David Albahari

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