Doppelgänger

by Daša Drndić and S.D. Curtis

Book Overview

Two elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year's Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, a Holocaust survivor, are revealed through police dossiers. As they fight loneliness and aging, they take comfort in small things: for Artur, a collection of 274 hats; for Isabella, a family of garden gnomes who live in her apartment. Later, we meet the ill-fated Pupi,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811228916
• ISBN13: 9780811228916
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"