Danilo Kis

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1980
  • Latest Book:
    February 2018
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

    Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a ...

  • Sandglass

    E.S., a fifty-year-old minor functionary in the Hungarian State Railways, is notified that his pension is to be reduced, the first hint that he is about to be caught up in the nightmare of the Holocaust...

  • Encyclopedia of the Dead

    An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sist...

  • Hourglass

    In a devastating story of the Holocaust, a fifty-three-year-old minor functionary of the Royal Hungarian Railways, E.S., investigates the reduction of his pension, while the Nazis plot the extermination of the European Jews...

  • Garden Ashes

    From young Andi Scham's memories emerges the story of his father, who recedes from life in Yugoslovia and then disappears in the Holocaust. Andi's search for him is a story that "claims you like a symphonic poem" (Library Journal). Translated by Will...

  • Early Sorrows

    Early Sorrows centers on Andreas Sam, a highly intelligent boy whose life at first seems secure. His mother and sister dote on him; he excels at school; when he is hired out as a cowherd to help with the family's finances, he reads the day away in th...

  • Garden, Ashes

    Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kis's Garden, Ashes is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century. Aleksandar Hemon, from the introduction...

  • The Attic

    The Attic is Danilo Kiš’s first novel. Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, it explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing; it also tracks his relationship with a colorful...

  • The Lute and the Scars

    Written between 1980 and 1986, the six stories that constitute The Lute and the Scars (as well as an untitled piece by the author, included here as "A and B") were transcribed from the manuscripts left by Danilo Kiš following his death in 1989. Like...



  • Psalm 44

    Written when he was only twenty-five, before embarking on the masterpieces that would make him an integral figure in twentieth-century letters, Psalm 44 shows Kiš at his most lyrical and unguarded, demonstrating that even in "the place of dragons . ...

  • The Legend of the Sleepers

    'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentie...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Danilo Kis has published 11 books.

Danilo Kis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Legend of the Sleepers, was published in February 2018.

The first book by Danilo Kis, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, was published in August 1980.

No. Danilo Kis does not write books in series.
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