The Uzupis Republic |
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| Author:
| Hailji, |
| Translator:
| Fulton, Bruce |
| Series title: | Library of Korean Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62897-070-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | Deep Vellum Publishing
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| Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $16.99 |
Book Description:
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Užupis ("on the other side of the river”) is, in reality, a neighborhood in Lithuania’s capital city of Vilnius, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel, however, it is the lost homeland of a middle-aged man named Hal, who lands in Lithuania hoping to travel back to the town of his birth in order to bury his father’s ashes there--in a place that might not really exist. In a literary tradition dominated...
More DescriptionUžupis ("on the other side of the river”) is, in reality, a neighborhood in Lithuania’s capital city of Vilnius, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel, however, it is the lost homeland of a middle-aged man named Hal, who lands in Lithuania hoping to travel back to the town of his birth in order to bury his father’s ashes there--in a place that might not really exist. In a literary tradition dominated by social realism, The Republic of Užupis is a unique work of melancholy, Murakami-esque whimsy.