Story Of The Month
We are thrilled to announce a new backlist title from the late Daša Drndić
All of Drndić’s award-winning work fluctuates between fact and fiction, and Dying in Toronto gives an account of the author’s first year in Canada as a refugee, in 1995. While the book is written in form of essays, it is clearly shaped to tell of that year as a story, and the result is unique in both form and content, combining new techniques of creative personal confession and acute social perception, which offer a rare depth of insight and breadth of perspective on the real, difficult life of an immigrant. Check out her other titles with Istros: Doppelgänger and Canzone di Guerra
Film Screening on March 9th at UCL School of Slavonic and South East European languages
Masaryk room, SSEES, University College London
Please join us for this film screening organised as part of the SSEES Film Festival Vol 1: “Resistance”
Retired music professor Misha Brankov discovers his true origins under unusual circumstances. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found, buried long ago by an inmate Isaac Weiss in 1941. Along with the revelation, the box contains an unfinished musical score, called “When day breaks”, composed by Isaac. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, an execution site in the heart of contemporary Belgrade, while the tune continues to haunt him and lead him forward on a strange journey.
Celebrating 15 years of Istros Books during the London Book Fair
Thursday 12th March
At the Romanian Cultural Institute, Belgrave Square, London W1
7PM
Join Founding Editor Susan Curtis as she looks back on fifteen years of publishing the best of SE European literature with award-wining author and academic, Vesna Goldsworthy, and launches the press’ 78th title: Maybe Even Happiness by Ludovic Bruckstein
