The Bridge
Published on 10. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-4-908793-19-6 (ISBN)
Description
What is the link between red hair, a red bowling ball and a red bikini? Between an overcoat with asymmetrical lapels, a scarf with two blotches and a pair of non-matching sneakers? In this brainteasing trio of stories, Zoran ¿ivkovi¿ explores the collision of realities: a man encounters an alternate self, a woman out on a shopping trip runs into her dead neighbor and a fourteen-year-old girl chases her seventeen-year-old future son across town. Through absurd predicament, surreal situations and hot pursuit, ¿ivkovi¿ addresses deep and ultimately poignant questions of fate and chance, the vagaries of human character and the hidden potential which lies within us all.
Winner of the 2007 Isidora Sekuli¿ Award
Winner of the Golden Hit Liber Award (given by Serbian National Television to the most prominent prose book published in 2007)
Shortlisted for the 2007 NIN Award
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
118 gr
ISBN-13
978-4-908793-19-6 (9784908793196)
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Zoran ¿ivkovi¿ was born in Belgrade, Serbia, on October 5, 1948. Until his recent retirement, he was a full professor at the Faculty of Philology, the University of Belgrade, teaching creative writing. He is one of the most translated contemporary Serbian writers: by the end of 2017 there were 93 foreign editions of his books of fiction, published in 23 countries, in 20 languages.
¿ivkovi¿ has won several literary awards for his fiction, beginning with the Milö Crnjanski award in 1994 for his novel The Fourth Circle. In 2003, ¿ivkovi¿'s mosaic novel The Library won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella; in 2007 his novel The Bridge won the Isidora Sekuli¿ award; and in 2007 he received the Stefan Mitrov Ljubi¿a award for lifetime achievement in literature. In 2014 and 2015 he received three awards for his contribution to the literature of fantastika: Art-Anima, Stanislav Lem and The Golden Dragon.
Zoran ¿ivkovi¿ has been recognized with his selection as European Grand Master for 2017 by the European Science Fiction Society at the 39th Eurocon in Dortmund, Germany.