Words are something else /

Twenty-seven stories by a Serbian writer, many dealing with the destruction of the European Jewish culture in World War II. Others are surrealistic, such as Plastic Combs, whose protagonists are able to talk with inanimate matter.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Albahari, David, 1948-
Other Authors: Elias-Bursać, Ellen.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1996.
Series:Writings from an unbound Europe.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I : Three bus stops home
  • Is this age, kid?
  • The stories we tell
  • The gospel according to my father
  • Mama
  • The playground
  • The damp
  • The great rebellion at the Stuln Nazi Camp
  • The movies
  • An attempt at describing the death of Ruben Rubenović, former textiles salesman
  • Picture, window
  • Jerusalem
  • Part II : My wife has light eyes
  • A movie on television
  • My wife loves cats
  • Studio apartment
  • The wall
  • Words are something else
  • My wife softly sobs
  • The cloak
  • Part III : The essay
  • What does that prove?
  • The writer
  • Plastic combs
  • Buttons
  • The Pope
  • Mute song.