Northwestern University Press

Book Reviews

• **Death and the Dervish (Mesa Selimovic)
  - a spiritual crisis amidst Ottoman Bosnian politics
• *The Houses of Belgrade (Borislav Pekic)
  - a man looks back on a life obsessed by his houses
• **How to Quiet a Vampire (Borislav Pekic)
  - a psychological and philosophical novel of totalitarianism
• **Kaddish for a Child Not Born (Imre Kertesz)
  - the introspective monologue of an Auschwitz survivor
• The Return of Philip Latinowicz (Miroslav Krleza)
  - an artist in a Danubian backwater
• A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Peter Swirski, Stanislaw Lem)
  - interviews, essays, and bibliographies
• *The Time of Miracles (Borislav Pekic)
  - prophecy, blindness, uncleanliness, sin, faith, madness

Northwestern University Press' "Writings from an Unbound Europe" series specialises in translations of literature from Eastern Europe.