Trieste Daa Drndi Ellen Eliasbursac Translation by Daša Drndić, Ellen Elias-bursać (translation) B00AUZS5LG instant download after payment.

“Splendid & absorbing . . . [Drndic] is writing to witness, & to make the pain stick . . . These dense & satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory.” — New York Times Book Review

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs & newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer & stolen from her by the German authorities as part of Himmler’s clandestine Lebensborn project.

Haya reflects on her Catholicized Jewish family’s experiences, in a narrative that deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps, & fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg trials & interviews with second-generation Jews, & to eyewitness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. From this broad collage of material and memory arises the staggering chronicle of Nazi occupation in northern Italy.

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.

Ellen Elias-Bursać (born 1952) is an American scholar & literary translator. Specializing in South Slavic literature, she has translated numerous works from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian.