The Encounter British lite

The Encounter British liteBy Gabriela Adameteanu Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ISBN: 9781564789532 Description Pushed around by ticket takers who demand his ticket in several languag es, a middle aged man goes through a nightmare of hiding and getting away until he manages to cross a frontier guarded by soldiers and dogs. Hes made it back to his native village. There he finds his whole family gathered around a big table, as if for a wedding, a baptism or a wake, but no one

a radio producer

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Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world

and immensely readable

including the collection Blue Meditation of the Clocks

looking up at the night sky

" First published in 1936 and long neglected

Jančar reveals deep human social and psychological traumas and -- like his Central European literary and spiritual relatives

yearning and nostalgia for something or someone irreparably lost

We meet amputee sons whose mothers cart them from brothel to brothel

Theo has been helping retired generals and CIA directors justify their decisions in the first-person

Daniel Handler