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50 reviewsAn early novel from the masterful Drndic, Battle Songs is an intimate, ferocious account of her years spent as a refugee in Canada during the Yugoslav Wars
In the 1990s, the unnamed narrator of Battle Songs leaves Yugoslavia with her daughter Sara to Toronto to start a new life. They, along with other refugees, encounter a new country but not a new home. Book editors sell hotdogs, mathematicians struggle to get by on social security, violinists hawk cheap goods on the street. Years after arriving in Canada, when she thinks no one can hear her, Sara still sings in the shower: What can we do to make things better, what can we do to make things better, la-la-la-la.In true Drndic style, the novel has no one time or place. It is interspersed with stories from the Yugoslav Wars, from Rijeka to Zagreb to Sarajevo—with, as always, the long shadow of WWII looming overhead. Her singular layering of details—from lung damage to silk scarves to the family budget to old romances—offers an almost unbearable closeness to the characters & their moment in history. “Wry & kindly, funny, angry, informed & intent on the truth, no voice is quite as blisteringly beautiful as that of Drndić” (Financial Times).
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Battle Songs is bleak but not hopeless, & Drndić’s inventive style carries the reader along without allowing the disillusionment of the book to become disillusionment with the experience of reading it. Those new to Drndić will find themselves impatient to dig deeper into her writing... Anyone interested in Eastern European history or the continuing playfulness of the novelistic form would do well to read Battle Songs.—Alex Tedesco, Blathering Struldbrugs
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Daša Drndić (1946-2018) wrote Trieste—“splendid, absorbing” (NY Times)—shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, & Belladonna—“one of the strangest & strongest books” (TLS)— winner of the 2018 Warwick Prize, & EEG–“a masterpiece” (Joshua Cohen).
