David Albahari is the author of twenty published books in Serbian; six have been translated into English, including Snow Man (Douglas & McIntyre, 2005) and Leeches (Harcourt, 2011). Read more of his work at davidalbahari.com.
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David Albahari
The Banff Way
"I am forever surprised by the fact that time passes more speedily between mountains than it does out on the prairie..." Read more
Children Not Prohibited
"She insisted that I write into your will that the funeral must not be held in the rain." "Whose funeral?" I asked. "Yours." Read more
Calypso, Itch, Elegance
"We smoke, sometimes we drink, pop a few pills, eat peanuts, or suck on hard candy." Nine unambiguous short stories by David Albahari. Read more
Shuttle Survivors
On a recent trip to Paris, I met a young woman from Japan. But this is not a story about a sudden love affair, which one might expect in Paris. Read more
The Art of Renaming
Why does one culture give a flower a pretty, poetic name, while another culture names it in a seemingly derogatory way? Read more
Stroke of History
The Borderland Foundation documents borderland culture from its headquarters in the Jewish ghost town of Sejny, Poland. Read more
Bird in the Willow
Something always remains, and that small thing is what stories are about, including this one, if this one is a story at all. Read more
Dangerous Times
David Albahari visits Canadian cities and remembers a slogan from the former Yugoslavia: Get to know your country in order to love her. Read more
My Father’s Hands
Walking along the streets of Paris, watching thousands of tourists using their digital cameras, I remember the way my father held his old Kodak when he took photographs. Read more
Balkan Farewell
Only when I settle down in the back seat of the cab do I notice that on the dashboard there are several stickers with the letter U, the sign of Ustashe. During the Second World War, Ustashe was the ruling party in the Independent State of Croatia. They also had their own army and ran a number of concentration camps where many Serbs, gypsies and Jews were slaughtered. Read more
In Jerusalem
I haven’t been in Jerusalem for sixteen years and the first thing my friend shows me is the wall that separates them from the Palestinians. Read more
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