Vittorio Monti, Csárdás
Folk tune, Pašona kolo
F. Chopin, Etudes Opus 10, No. 3 in E major, ‘Tristesse’
F. Schubert, Ave Maria
Hans Leip/Nortbert Schultze, ‘Lili Marleen’
F.J. Ricketts, ‘Hitler has only got one ball,’ to the music of ‘Colonel Bogey March’
Herman Hapfield, ‘As Time Goes By’
Pixinguinha, ‘Rosa’, Marisa Monte
‘Pe drumul banatului’ (Romanian traditional), Maria Lataretu
About Dejan Tiago-Stanković
Born in the former Yugoslavia in 1965, DEJAN TIAGO-STANKOVIĆ is an author and translator. He studied architecture in Belgrade before moving to London. Since 1996 he has lived in Lisbon, translating between his native Serbo-Croatian and Portuguese.
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First published in Serbian in 2015 by Geopoetika
This English translation first published in the UK in 2018 by Apollo, an imprint of Head of Zeus Ltd
Translation copyright © Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, 2018
The moral right of Dejan Tiago-Stanković to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
Drawing of a cow: André Tiago-Stanković
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This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN (HB): 9781786698155
ISBN (E): 9781786698148
Jacket art: Nathan Burton
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