Garden Ashes

Name: Garden Ashes
Author: Danilo Kis

by Danilo Kis

Novel of childhood in World War II-era Yugoslavia marked by displacement and loss

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Danilo Kis

Yugoslav author of Serbian-Jewish heritage whose fiction explored the fate of European Jews under Nazism and the corruption of Stalinist communism. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead are his masterpieces.

More by Danilo Kis

A Tomb for Boris DavidovichExperimental novel depicting the execution of a Soviet revolutionary through fragmented narratives
The Encyclopedia of the DeadMetafictional exploration of mortality and memory through invented biographical entries
HourglassNovel on time, mortality, and the relationship between parent and child
Early SorrowsComing-of-age story about an adolescent emerging into the adult world