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0 reviewsFrom the author of the highly acclaimed Trieste, a fierce novel about history, memory, & illness
Belladonna: also known as deadly nightshade, devil’s berries, death cherries, beautiful death, devil’s herb, which sounds terrifying & threatening. Belladonna also carried a tamer name, dog’s cherry, & an almost magical one, fairy plant.
Andreas Ban, a psychologist who no longer psychologizes, a a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. His body is failing him. He sifts through the remnants of his life—his research, books, medical records, photographs—remembering old lovers & friends, the tragedies of WWII, the breakup of Yugoslavia. Ban’s memories of Belgrade (which he thought he had left behind) & of Amsterdam (a different world & life) alternate with meditations on hole-ridden time (ebbing away through its perforations), on his measly pension, on growing old & fragile, on the intelligence of rats & the agelessness of lobsters, on deadly nightshade. He tries to push the past away, to “land on a little island of time in which tomorrow does not exist, in which yesterday is buried.”
Drndić leafs through the horrors of history with a cold unflinching wit. “The past is riddled with holes,” she writes. “Souvenirs can’t help here.” And they don’t.
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“Belladonna forces us to remember. Grotesque imagery abounds—this is a novel that does not turn its gaze away. But then, sometimes the writing surprises us with humor, or beauty. A complicated, moving book which engages with the horrors of the past.”—The Rumpus
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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). She also wrote plays, criticism, radio plays, & documentaries.
