Belgrade Noir
✍ Scribed by Milorad Ivanović
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 323 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Akashic Books,U.S. 2020
- ISBN
- 1617758655
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
Brand-new stories by: Oto Oltvanji, Misha Glenny, Kati Hiekkapelto, Vesna Goldsworthy, Mirjana Đurđević, Vladan Matijević, Muharem Bazdulj, Vladimir Arsenijević, Dejan Stojiljković, Miljenko Jergović, Aleksandar Gatalica, Vule Žurić, Verica Vincent Cole, and Goran Skrobonja.
From the introduction by Milorad Ivanović:
_It was summer 1997, two years after the wars in Bosnia and Croatia, and two years before the war in Kosovo and NATO's bombardment of Belgrade. Serbia was under sanctions and life was difficult. I had been working as a journalist for two short months when my editor sent me to cover the suicide of a famous Serbian painter. The crime scene was terrifying --in front of the elevator lay the body of the artist...
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