The Use of Man - Softcover

Aleksandar Tišma

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Synopsis

A description of the lives of four friends growing up in a small Yugoslavian town during and after World War II - Vera who is sent to a concentration camp, Sep who becomes a Nazi, Milinko who joins the Partisans and Sredjoe who is obsessed by war.

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About the Author

ALEKSANDAR TISMA was born in 1924 in Vojvodina, Yugoslavia, to a Serbian father and a Hungarian mother. He experienced the Holocaust in his native town of Novi Sad. After the war he worked as a journalist in Novi Sad and Belgrade, and later became an editor, writer, and translator. He has written sixteen works of fiction, of which the last five--what he calls a pentateuch of novels and stories--have been devoted to the subject of the Holocaust.

Language Notes

Text: English, Serbo-Croation (translation)

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