Aleksandar Tisma

Part of Aleksandar Tisma's lauded Novi Sad Trilogy, The Book of Blam is a classic of Holocaust literature and a searing portrait of what it means to survive. Tisma's antihero is a Job untouched by grace, a man who lives but who has lost everything in the process, and it is his unwavering perpsective that makes Tisma's novel tremendously important.

A gripping, and upsetting, novel about the lives of three young friends ripped apart body and soul during World War II in a previously tolerant town in the Balkans. A book not just about the horrors of a brutal and racist war, but of the difficulty of restoring friendships, lives, and communities after the butchery is done.