The Apology and the Last Days

Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Peki, one of the former Yugoslavia s most important postwar writers. [...]
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Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Peki, one of the former Yugoslavia s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard during the war, saved from drowning, thus making him vulnerable to charges of collaboration. In this tragicomic tale, Pekic explores eternal questions of fate and individual responsibility."