Time Gifts (Writings From An Unbound Europe)

Zoran Zivkovic weaves four mysterious encounters around philosophical questions at the core of human existence. Provocative and original, Time Gifts is a meditation on the nature of time and, especially, on the nature of those at its mercy.

Time Gifts (Writings from an Unbound Europe)

Literature & Fiction

ZIVKOVIC, Zoran

Literary

Northwestern University Press

From one of Serbia’s greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival at the theatre, he discovers that there’s only one other person in the audience, a very attractive woman whom he’s seated next to. Then things get a bit more mysterious. The movie he’s been invited to see includes a scene showing him sitting in a park. Believing that he’s an unwitting participant in a complicated hidden camera show, he goes along with the variety of setups he’s faced with, which continue to get more involved and absurd. As the show develops, he becomes more and more paranoid and distrustful, but he keeps up the ruse to its thrilling conclusion.

Hidden Camera (Eastern European Literature)

Dalkey Archive Press

The Writer, the Book, the Reader

PS Publishing

Steps through the Mist

Five women in various stages of life—all connected by a mysterious, obscuring mist—face the deterministic trap of fate in this mosaic novel. A freshman at a girl’s boarding school gains the strange ability to share other people’s dreams, whereas a young woman in a straitjacket desperately tries to select a very particular future from among countless possibilities. A middle-aged skier refuses to be a puppet on a string, while a mature fortune-teller experiences a faltering faith in her trade, and when an elderly woman’s precious alarm clock suddenly breaks, she suffers a vivid and troubling encounter with her past. An enticing mix of the ordinary with the surreal and the mundane with the sublime, these tales quietly twist trusted concepts.

Steps Through the Mist

Contemporary

Aio Pub Co Llc

Impossible Encounters

A nuanced mix of the ordinary with the surreal, the mundane with the sublime, this mosaic novel quietly twists trusted concepts. With simple yet fine prose, this story unfolds as a series of otherworldly meetings. After death, a man encounters not a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel, but a hall of portraits and, locked in a room, the most extraordinary artwork of all. Other colorful characters include a young man who finds himself atop a mountain, a bookseller that services the most ordinary of requests from a highly unusual patron, a banker who meets his maker on a train, a priest who receives absolution from the devil, and a dying author who finds hope in the most unlikely of conversations. Long before the last page, readers may find the world has been turned inside out.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Aio Publishing Company

The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from Asia, Eastern Europe and around the world. The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells a tale breathtakingly vast and varied, whether caught in the ghosts of the past or entangled in a postmodern age. Among the spirits, technology, and deep recesses of the human mind, stories abound. Kites sail to the stars, technology transcends physics, and wheels cry out in the night. Memories come and go like fading echoes and a train carries its passengers through more than simple space and time. Dark and bright, beautiful and haunting, the stories herein represent speculative fiction from a sampling of the finest authors from around the world. Table of Contents: S.P. Somtow(Thailand)—“The Bird Catcher” Jetse de Vries(Netherlands)—“Transcendence Express” Guy Hasson (Israel)—“The Levantine Experiments” Han Song (China)—“The Wheel of Samsara” Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji)—“Ghost Jail” Yang Ping (China)—“Wizard World” Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines)—“L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)” Nir Yaniv (Israel)—“Cinderers” Jamil Nasir (Palestine)—“The Allah Stairs” Tunku Halim (Malaysia)—“Biggest Baddest Bomoh” Aliette de Bodard (France)—“The Lost Xuyan Bride” Kristin Mandigma (Philippines)—“Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang” Aleksandar Ziljak (Croatia)—“An Evening In The City Coffehouse, With Lydia On My Mind” Anil Menon (India)—“Into the Night” Melanie Fazi (France, translated by Christopher Priest)—“Elegy” Zoran Zivkovic (Serbia, translated by Alice Copple-Tosic)—“Compartments” “From S.P. Somtow’s World Fantasy Award-winning “The Bird Catcher,” a restrained horror tale of a young boy’s friendship with Thailand’s most infamous human “monster,” to “Wizard World,” Galaxy Award winner Yang Ping’s story of high-tech gamers, this extraordinary anthology of 16 tales introduces English-speaking readers to some of the world’s best writers of sf, horror, fantasy, and metafiction. Contributors include Jamil Nasir (Palestine), Aleksandar Ziljak (Croatia), Guy Hasson (Israel), Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji), and Jetse de Vries (Netherlands). VERDICT This literary window into the international world of imaginative fiction, the first in a new series, is sure to appeal to adventurous sf fans and readers of fiction in translation." —Library Journal, August 2009 “The great thing about Tidhar’s collection is that it is full of such masterpieces. You do have to get used to having your mind warped as if by some powerful psychedelic. You’ll definitely feel that way after Zoran Zivkovic and his Godot-like explorations. Or after Guy Hassan’s thought experiment about the nature of mind and thought. But once you get used to the idea, you can settle in and enjoy the ride.” —42SciFi-Fantasy.com, Randy Lazarus

The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 1 (Apex World of Speculative Fiction)

Warren, Kaaron

Bodard, Aliette De

Menon, Anil

Somtow,S.P.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Apex Book Company

Das letzte Buch

DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch

Ten linked stories with resonant titles explore almost every conceivable aspect of human memory: the positive and the negative, the precious and the profane, the heavenly and the unbearably hellish. Zivkovic's deceptively simple tales anatomize the essence of what makes human beings tick, our passions, our vanities and yearnings; the very memories which make us who we are.

Amarcord

Kurodahan Press

In this suite of eight stories, the three ages of woman - youth, midlife and senescence - engage in a complex and fruitful dance. A young Miss Tamara is lured by a series of postcards concealed in library books. A middle-aged Miss Tamara discovers that her new reading glasses turn the pages blank. An afternoon's reading is disturbed by the realization that all books have turned fatally toxic. A mysterious phone call leads to a book which blinds its readers but also to romance. Woven through these seemingly simple narratives are deep themes of youth and aging, memory and loss, solitude and companionship, and the relationship between the physical and the mental life. Above all this is a book about reading: its pleasures, rituals, essential preciousness. Reading as an obsession which can not only isolate, but also lead to discovery and love.

Miss Tamara, the Reader

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