No-Signal Area by Perisic, Robert

No-Signal Area (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609809706)

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No-Signal Area by Perisic, Robert

No-Signal Area

$22.95
No-Signal Area by Perisic, Robert

No-Signal Area

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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Oleg and Nikola--hustlers, entrepreneurs, ambassadors of capitalism--have come to the town of N to build an obsolete turbine, never mind why. Enlisting the help of former engineer Sobotka, they reopen the old turbine factory, preaching the gospel of "self-organization" and bringing new life to the depressed post-communist town. But as the project spins out of control, Oleg and Nikola find themselves increasingly entangled with the locals, for whom this return to past prosperity brings bitter reckonings and reunions. At once a savage sendup of our current political moment and a rueful elegy for what might have been, this sprawling novel blends tragedy and comedy in its portrayal of ordinary people wondering where it all went wrong, and whether it could have gone any other way.

Author: Robert Perisic
ISBN-10: 160980970X
ISBN-13: 9781609809706
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2020
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2020 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 04/20/2020
By Robert Perisic
By Robert Perisic
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ROBERT PERISIĆ's novel Our Man in Iraq garnered rave reviews from the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, and NPR's "All Things Considered," among others, and was praised as "a must-read" by the Guardian. Perisic has published award-winning nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and criticism in his native Croatia, where both Our Man in Iraq and No-Signal Area were best sellers. He began writing short stories in the 1990s with a clear anti-war sentiment, during the days following the devastating war that tore apart the former Yugoslavia, and is now considered to be one of the most important writers and literary critics in the region. Perisic lives in Zagreb.

ELLEN ELIAS-BURSAĆ is a translator of fiction and nonfiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. She has taught in the Harvard University Slavic Department and is a contributing editor to the online journal Asymptote. She lives in Boston.

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