by Daša Drndic
Translation copyright © 2017 by Celia Hawkesworth
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Originally published in Croatian by Fraktura in 2012
Published in arrangement with MacLehose Press, London
Manufactured in the United States of America
New Directions Books are printed on acid-free paper
First published as a New Directions Paperbook Original (ndp1388) in 2017
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Drndić, Daša, 1946– author. | Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942– translator.
Title: Belladonna / Daša Drndić;
translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth.
Other titles: Belladonna. English
Description: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017013734 | ISBN 9780811227216 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Memory—Fiction. | World War, 1939–1945—Fiction. |
Yugoslavia—History—20th century—Fiction. | GSAFD: Historical fiction.
Classification: LCC PG1619.14.R58 B4513 2017 | DDC 891.8/235—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017013734
eISBN: 9780811227223
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