Learning Cyrillic Visual Arts where the inexorable need for

where the inexorable need for love is transformed into a means for survival

"The Barnum Museum is quintessential Millhauser: it exemplifies his interest in microcosms (dioramas

Depraved characters parade themselves and their crass literary leanings

Isle of Dreams is a sinister satire on urban decay

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Learning Cyrillic Visual Arts where the inexorable need forLearning Cyrillic presents a selection of fiction by Serbian master David Albahari written since his departure from Europe. In these twenty short stories, written and published in their original language over the past twenty years, Albahari addresses immigrant lifethe need to fit into ones adopted homelandas well as the joys and terrors of refusing to give up ones essential strangeness in the face of an alien culture.