by Danilo Kis · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420424781
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«El reloj de arena» is the novel by Danilo Kiš, published by Alfaguara in paperback (303 pages, in Spanish).
The novel reconstructs the last days of Eduard Sam, a Jewish railway official, from letters, memories and hypotheses. Set in a central Europe torn apart during the 1940s, it interweaves personal history with the great themes of memory, identity, truth and fantasy, and reflects on death with prose of intense poetic elaboration.
The work closes the trilogy dedicated to Eduard Sam and his family. The translation is by Nevenka Vasiljević.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in formal experimentation and twentieth-century European history.
Danilo Kiš was a Yugoslav and Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead.
