The Image Interpreter
by Zoran Živković
Translated from Serbian by Randall A. Major
Part of The Zoran Živković Collection
In a carriage of the Paris metro, nine people cross paths one ordinary Friday morning: a retired office worker who comes there purely to read; a tourist revisiting the memories of sixty years ago; a funeral mourner who has discovered the beauty of cemeteries; an author in search of her characters; a young man with a reality problem; an elderly woman with memory issues; a military administrator with a secret hobby; a jilted woman who has the key to the perfect match; and a secret agent high on adrenaline. Each in turn encounters that ubiquitous and unavoidable gadget: the cell phone camera. Each comes to a realization that changes their life forever. But who is the tenth person in the carriage, and what do her photographs tell her about the other nine that they could not possibly know themselves?
The author’s latest masterpiece, finally available in English!
Long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award
Reviews
- One of the dangers of Živković’s fiction can be that one gets caught up in the clever construction, more concerned with how he’s going to pull it off than the actual substance, but there’s a lot of creativity and variety on display in these pieces, the stories, themselves. These are fun, unusual episodes, piece by piece, taking unusual turns and playing with a variety of interesting ideas, large and small. Meanwhile, the larger whole is satisfying too. Enjoyable entertainment, through and through.
—M.A.Orthofer, The Complete Review
Details
- Pages: 180
- Trim size: 5″ x 8″ (127mm x 203mm), with dj
- ISBN
Hardcover: 978-4-908793-39-4
Softcover: 978-4-908793-46-2
Ebook: 978-4-908793-40-0 - List Price:
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Softcover: US$9.00
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