A Spare Life
Christina E. Kramer
(Translator)
Description
At once extraordinary and quotidian, A Spare Life is a chronicle of two girls who are among the first generation to come of age under democracy in Eastern Europe. Written in touching prose by an author who is also a master poet, it is a saga about families, sisterhood, immigration, and the occult influences that shape a life. Funny, poignant, dark, and sharply observed, Zlata and Srebra reveal an existence where even the simplest of actions is unlike any we've ever experienced.
Product Details
| Publisher | Two Lines Press |
| Publish Date | October 11, 2016 |
| Pages | 428 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781931883559 |
| Dimensions | 7.9 X 4.9 X 1.3 inches | 1.3 pounds |
About the Author
Christina E. Kramer is a professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books on the Macedonian language and the Balkans and is the translator of Freud's Sister, The Time of the Goats, and My Father's Books. She lives in Toronto.
Reviews
"A Spare Life uses the boldest of metaphors - the life of conjoined twins - to embody the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. This strange and wonderful novel brings to mind Elena Ferrante and Magda Szabó in the acuity of its social observation and the depth of its mordant humor." -- Katie Kitamura, author of The Longshot and A Separation
"Dimkovska has an eye for detail befitting of a poet and the stark, unrelenting prose of a master storyteller. A Spare Life is a weird and wonderful book, capturing the quirk and complexity of both a declining Yugoslavia, and the inseparable lives of two sisters with clarity, wit, and heart." -- Sara Novic, author of Girl at War, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
"Lidija Dimkovska enriches our contemporary museum of literary wonders with her powerful, grotesque, weird details and episodes told within the merry old novelistic tradition." -- Dubravka Ugresic, author of Baba Laid an Egg
"The truth is she's unstoppable and will not be ignored." -- the Poetry Foundation
"English-language readers would be poorer without [her]." -- Publishers Weekly
"The direst laugh-out-loud sense of humor around . . . transcendent, dizzying, and not to be missed." -- Boston Review
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