The Bridge

( Serbian - Most - 2006 )

novella by Zoran Živković

translated by Alice Copple-Tosic

Published: PS Publishing - hardback - 2009 ( limited edition - 100, signed )
ISBN: 1905834330 / 9781905834334

PS Publishing - hardback - 2009 ( trade edtion - 500 )
iSBN: 1905834322 / 9781905834327


synopsis
What is the link between red hair, a red bowling ball and a red bikini? Between an overcoat with asymmetrical lapels, a scarf with two blotches and a pair of non-matching sneakers? In this brainteasing trio of stories, Zoran Zivkovic explores the collision of realities: a man encounters an alternate self, a woman out on a shopping trip runs into her dead neighbour and a fourteen-year-old girl chases her seventeen-year-old future son across town. Through absurd predicament, surreal situations and hot pursuit, Zivkovic addresses deep and ultimately poignant questions of fate and chance, the vagaries of human character and the hidden potential which lies within us all.

awards
Isidora Sekulić, 2007