Garden Ashes

Garden of Ashes Book Description My victim role, which I have played throughout my life and which has a success line with ups and downs, because a person portrays his own life and his own destiny, means that this role of mine is slowly coming to an end. Young man, always remember that one cannot play the victim unless one eventually becomes a real victim. And you see, there is nothing I can do about it anymore, I have to make an effort to play this role properly until the end. This will be a salvation for me, a pardon that you will grant me. Danilo Kish's masterpiece, The Garden in Ashes, II. Childhood years spent on the eve of World War II; He traces the traumas, homelessness, fluctuating moods, and ways of salvation that could not be found, inherited from his family, especially his father, who was dragged from place to place under the threat of exile and lynching. In this autobiographical novel, Kiş brings to light those years spent under the influence of an unforgettable father figure, as if searching a black and white family album hidden under the ashes of an apocalypse that ravaged the whole world. The Garden, one of the most poetic and touching father-son stories written in modern literature, translated from the Serbian original by Küller Özge Deniz... "Danilo Kiş is unquestionably one of the greatest writers who preserved the honor of literature in the second half of the century."Susan Sontag "The true nature of the lyrical text "A gem, the best book to come out after the war in Continental Europe." Iosif Brodski (From the Promotional Bulletin)