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On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveller experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness Compartments taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation both moving and full of hope.Includes a new essay on Compartments by British author Tamar Yellin.

The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type or "para-genre" of satirical prose embodied in the exemplary In Praise of Folly by the famous humanist from Rotterdam. Instead of the "Folly, " of human manias and absurdities, here, in a similar kind of double-talk, the books them...

The Writer: A Very Short Novel, without Chapters, about Writing and Darkness Where does all the writing come from? Is it divine inspiration, a bolt of lightning that reveals a whole new work in a single glimpse, or a unique gift granted by demonic forces to penetrate the darkness and see beyond it? Two fundamental principles of the most noble of all arts are in the permanent collision, surrounded by the contagious environment of the authors' v...

An empty apartment, locked from the inside: this is the mystery that literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukic, hero of Zoran Zivkovic's The Last Book, is called in to solve. What has become of the woman who lives there, bestselling detective fiction writer Jelena Jakovljevic? And, perhaps more importantly still, what has happened to the manuscript of her newly-completed novel, Find Me? As Inspector Lukic becomes ever more entangled in th...

In a carriage of the Paris metro, nine people cross paths one ordinary Friday morning: a retired office worker who comes there purely to read, a tourist revisiting the memories of sixty years ago, a funeral mourner who has discovered the beauty of cemeteries, an author in search of her characters, a young man with a reality problem, an elderly woman with memory issues, a military administrator with a secret hobby, a jilted woman who has the ke...

When certain mysterious events involving books occur, it seems that Inspector Dejan Lukic is always the man for the job. This time, however, things are a little different. Inspector Lukic himself is at the heart of the mystery, lured by the appearance of a number of packages addressed to him in person and left at several highly unlikely locations. The contents of these packages - a set of books known as "The Compendium of the Dead" - a series ...

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A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukic to investigate. Here he meets the attractive owner, Vera Gavrilovic, and learns that the only thing the victims have in common is that in the moments before their deaths they were reading an elusive and unidentified volume - The Last Book.As the plot thickens and the seemingly causeless deaths multiply, the National Security Agency, a s...

A quiet, somewhat neurotic undertaker spends his days caring for his exotic fish, and of course his silent bodies as they arrive. One day, quite out of the ordinary, he receives a ticket to the movies. The movie, however, turns out to be of him, apparently filmed without his knowledge! Convinced that he is being targeted by a TV reality show, he plays along, only to be dragged from one adventure to the next, in a fantastic journey that evolves...

Dopo il giallo atipico "L'ultimo libro", Zivkovic continua la sua esplorazione narrativa del mondo dei libri con un romanzo a mosaico che esplora in sei storie collegate tra loro il tema della biblioteca, da quella personale a quella pubblica. Nella biblioteca virtuale uno scrittore scopre i libri che non ha ancora scritto, un appassionato lettore si trova ad affrontare una biblioteca di casa che cresce a dismisura sino a occupare ogni centime...

On five bridges over the Danube, five strange and remarkable tales are told: tales of the sacrifices that are made for Art. For the painter, the sculptor, the writer and the composer, creation is inextricably entwined with violence, suffering and the darkest reaches of the psyche, and the bridge to enlightenment is the hardest of all to cross. Yet through the innocence of a dog all can be redeemed, in the miraculous climax of this complex and ...

E se si potesse scegliere di tornare indietro, una volta varcata l'ultima soglia? Se si potesse guardare attraverso una finestra la nostra prossima vita? E se un giorno, arrivando in cima a una vetta avvolta dalle nubi, si potesse incontrare chi saremo tra vent'anni? O magari incontrare Dio in uno scompartimento ferroviario, e porGli una domanda, oppure il diavolo in un confessionale? E se un libraio potesse parlare con il protagonista di un r...

Zoran Zivkovic's second collection, bringing together a new set of fantastic, enthralling stories to delight you. Contains Four Stories Till the End, Twelve Collections, The Bridge, Amarcord, and Miss Tamara, the Reader. From nail clippings, to a hotel with its own zinc mine, and on to the tale of a fourteen-year-old girl who chases her seventeen-year-old future son across town, Zivkovic delivers witty, often painfully sharp, fables to make yo...

A mysterious visitor comes to see three desperate human beings: an astronomer in his prison cell the night before his execution for the ultimate heresy, a paleolinguist with a wasted life behind her who has been forgotten by everybody in her dusty basement office, an old watchmaker with a dark, painful spot in his past that has haunted him for decades. The visitor has a unique but ambiguous time-gift for each one of them. His true identity is ...

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Che cosa terribile! Purtroppo alla libreria "Il Papiro" si è verificato un triste incidente. Il signor Todorovic, uno dei clienti più affezionati, è morto improvvisamente, mentre stava leggendo un libro seduto su una poltrona. Vera Gavrilovic, una delle due libraie, è costernata, e quando arriva l'ispettore Dejan Lukic, per un semplice controllo, gli comunica a cuore aperto tutto il suo sconcerto e la sua preoccupazione. Non è che l'inizio, ah...

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The Devil in Brisbane is an anthology alive with all of the spontaneity, cunning, wild imagination, and artifice of it's namesake. Zoran Zivkovic has conjured thirty tales of sardonic splendor from Australian writers both new and more established. In this case, the Devil is most definitely in the details.- Jeffrey Ford, author of The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

The first Japanese-language introduction to the fascinating world of Serbian fantasy master Zoran Zivkovic. Contains three of his best shorts: "The Teashop, " "The Fire" and "Hole in the Wall, " along with an introductory essay by Tatsumi Takayuki. (Japanese-language edition) 真真真真真真真型真真真真真真真真型真真真(Zivkovic)真真真真真真真真真真真 SF真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真 真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真 真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真真

A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukic to investigate. Together with the attractive owner, Vera Gavrilovic, they discover the elusive Last Book is responsible. Seemingly causeless deaths multiply, the National Security Agency, a secret apocalyptic sect, and others are drawn in, and the secrets of immortality, death, and reality itself are revealed in a masterful trilogy that...