Name: The Encyclopedia of the Dead

Author: Danilo Kis
Year: 1983
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Short Stories, Fiction

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9780810115149
081011514X
An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers

A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sisters and father in a mirror bought from a gypsy; the death of a prostitute causes an unanticipated uprising; and the lives of every ordinary person since 1789 are recreated in the almighty Encyclopedia of the Dead. These stories about love and death, truth and lies, myth and reality range across many epochs and settings. Brilliantly combining fact and fiction, epic and miniature, horror and comedy, this was Danilo Kis final work, published in Serbo-Croatian in 1983.
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