The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our hero, a single man, writes a regular op-ed column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time with his best friend, smoking pot and talking about sex, politics, and life in general. One day on the shore of the Danube he spots a man slapping a beautiful woman. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later he receives a mysterious manuscript whose contents seem to mutate each time he opens it. To decipher the manuscript a collection of fragments on the Kabbalah and the history of the Jews of Zemun and Belgrade he contacts an old schoolmate, now an eccentric mathematician, and a group of men from the Jewish community. As the narrator delves deeper into arcane topics, he begins to see signs of anti-Semitism, past and present, throughout the city and he feels impelled to denounce it.
Title: Leeches
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
David Albahari
;
Translated by
Ellen Elias-Bursac
ISBN 13: 9781846555428
ISBN 10: 1846555426
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Publication Date: 15/12/2011
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
891.8236
(DC22)
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
Height: 222mm
Width: 144mm
Thickness: 30mm
Weight: 450g