Belladonna

Winner of 2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

From the author of the highly acclaimed Trieste, a fierce novel about history, memory, and illness

Andreas Ban, a psychologist who no longer psychologizes, a writer who no longer writes, lives alone in a coastal town in Croatia. His body is failing him. He sifts through the remnants of his life—his research, books, medical records, photographs—remembering old lovers and friends, the tragedies of WWII, the breakup of Yugoslavia. Ban’s memor...