The Russian Window

Belgrade, at the end of the 1990's. Rudi Stupar, a failed drama student, half-hearted scholar of German and full-time flâneur, is drifting aimlessly through life. When his father dies, his girlfriend sleeps with another man, and it looks like he can no longer avoid National Service, he decides to head for Budapest for a while. Then bombs are dropped on Yugoslavia and his exile becomes enforced: instead of being a drifter, he finds he becomes a driven man.

With urgent prose, Dragan Velikic tells us about one man’s search, portraying life both real and imagined, and the inescapable power of memory.

• Bestselling title in Serbia

• Meša-Selimovi?-Award 2007

• Nin-Award 2008 (Serbian Booker Award)

• Mitteleuropa-Preis 2008

Praise for previous titles:

On "Der Fall Bremen"
"...an author who playfully combines the technique of the modern novel as seen with Broch and Musil with post-modern glamour and illusions. Dragan Velikic is a superior composer who lavishly distributes striking details, bizarre anecdotes and astute reflections throughout his novel."
Karl-Markus Gauss, Neue Züricher Zeitung, 31.08.2002

On "Dossier Domaszewki"
"His evocative prose is constructed from unique, vivid pictures and metaphorical scenes of piercing expressiveness."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13.09.2004

On "Lichter der Berührung"
" Lichter der Berührung proves itself as a brilliantly composed novel which combines narrative subtlety with stout matter."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26.05.2005