Tsing

By David Albahari

Beginning with a series of imagined vignettes involving a father and daughter, David Albahari weaves both real and imagined narrative fragments together to create a multilayered narrative combining a wholly fictional novel with a chronicle of the narrator's visit to the United States. As the fragments accumulate, his deft combination of paradox and poetry provides a kaleidoscopic view of memory, love, and loneliness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810115689
• ISBN13: 9780810115682
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.7" x 7.9"

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This novel, a short metafictional experiment by Serbian expatriate short-story master David Albahari, succeeds in both playing literary games and capturing genuine emotion. It is a shame that most of Albahari's work remains untranslated, for he is truly among a tiny handful of great contemporary writers. For now, we must be content to read the two works he has published in English, of which Tsing is the only novel. You will not be disappointed with this selection.