The Hourglass tells the story of the final months of one man's life in the period leading up to his dispatch to a concentration camp. It is considered to be Danilo Kis's masterpiece. The author died in 1989.[...]

V Skvernyj les priezzhaet zamorskij zverinyj teatr, a vmeste s teatr om v lesu pojavljaetsja zagadochnyj prestupnik. Superdetektivy ? pjos Fu-Fu i kot Kis-Kis ? berutsja za novoe rassledovanie! Chto proiskhodit v zverinom mire?! Strannye ogni za derevjami, svetjaschiesja figury i tainstvennye ischez[...]

This is an entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Serbia's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sister and father in a mirror bought from a g[...]

Continuing the European Classics series, here is the first paperback edition of ". . . one of the finest fantastic collections since Borge's FICCIONES" (THE NATION). In these stories Danilo Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes--the multitude of details that make up a human life. "[...]

Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately lea[...]

Written between 1980 and 1986, the six stories that constitute The Lute and the Scars (as well as an untitled piece by the author, included here as A and B ) were transcribed from the manuscripts left by Danilo Ki following his death in 1989. Like the title story, many of these texts are autobiograp[...]

Esli ty zver, ryba, ptitsa, nasekomoe... ili voobsche chto-to neponjatnoe, to ty objazatelno dolzhen znat o suschestvovanii Detektivnogo Bjuro!Togo samogo Bjuro, v kotorom zhivut i rabotajut dva otvazhnykh syschika - Fu-Fu i Kis-Kis!Dnjom i nochju, v zharu i nepogodu syschiki ne znajut pokoja! Oni c[...]

Hella Joofs anden bog om Snitten og Kis er en hjertevarm historie om, hvordan en sød pige i kjole kan kurerere selv den værste stress, når man er en dreng, der hedder Snitten.

Kis kan ikke finde Snitten. Da han dukker op, er den helt gal: Snitten har fået stress på grund af den samlede b[...]

Det är i slutet av andra världskriget i gränslandet mellan Ungern och Serbien. Vi förs in i pojken Andis värld - ett mycket känsligt barn som upplever allt omkring sig med en smärtsam skärpa. Han är utsatt och annorlunda, men ändå en pojke som alla andra på den ungerska landsbygden. I sk[...]