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- ISBN 9781628972733
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. This collection of sixteen stories takes us on an eccentric tour of contemporary existence. A lonely man rants about everything under the sun, including the sun itself. A vampire recounts the history and travails of the Balkans’ bloodsucking community. A grief-stricken widower leads his son on a frantic search through the night. A husband and his pregnant wife argue, in Raymond Carver-like fashion, over whether Carver’s stories will have a negative influence on the baby. In prose rich with Nabokovian detail and barroom humor, Spahić paints a portrait of a world so strange, it could only exist in the twenty-first century.
Ognjen Spahić is a Montenegrin writer who has published two collections of short stories and a novel about the end of reality, entitled Hansen’s Children, which won the 2005 Meša Selimović Prize. Head Full of Joy was awarded the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature.
