Svetislav Basaras short fiction plays wild games with time and space while nonetheless keeping one foot grounded at all times in the reallife concerns of a young writer during the late communist and postcommunist eras in the former Yugoslavia. Dealing with civil war and other matters of life and death Basaras stories remain stubbornly eccentric retaining every quirk kink and convolution made famous in his celebrated Englishlanguage debut novel Chinese Letter. show more