Battle Songs

by Daša Drndić

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811234789
• ISBN13: 9780811234788
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.0"