Checkpoint

“Between adventure and apocalypse… Kafka and Kubrick… combining in grotesque-comical manner all the ridiculousness, beauty, horror, subtlety and extravagance that literature can hold.”

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

“The book’s single paragraph encourages reading it in one sitting…. Even translated from his native Serbian, Albahari’s prose has the contemplative, textured quality of such Eastern European writers as Kundera.”

John Green, Booklist

“Albahari makes us feel how fiercely the present needs to know the past. The present is an expression of the past, whether we know what it was or we don’t, and when there exists only a void between us and our antecedents, he suggests, it is this void, rather than what ought to be our own lives, that will claim us. The book is a sophisticated meditation on the inextricability of historical memory and identity; it is also a gorgeous work of the imagination about an act of imagination. The tone is pure, as strange as can be, and hypnotizing.”

Deborah Eisenberg, BOMB

“Albahari has written another investigation into the dark currents flowing just beneath the surface of human experience, and we should feel lucky to follow him down.”

Jessa Crispin, NPR Books

“Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough.”

La Vie Littéraire