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The Ferryman Is Dead

Saša Stanišić

Translated by Anthea Bell

Here, more die than are born. There’s a refrigerator at the bottom of the lake. The ferryman is dead. No one is coming to take his place.

Saša Stanišić

Saša Stanišić was born in 1978 in Višegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and has been living in Germany since 1992. His first novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, has been translated into thirty languages.

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Translated by Anthea Bell

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