Barley Patch Central Europe ISBN: 9781564784131

ISBN: 9781564784131

and an actor friend—attempt to postpone the postwar reckoning under the constant threat of air raids and starvation

from small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery

Brandão is the author of more than a half-dozen works of fiction

Barley Patch Central Europe ISBN: 9781564784131Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fictionor so he thinksforever. Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fictionor so he thinksforever. Using the form of an oblique self interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question "Must I write?" and proceeds to expand from this small, personal query to fill in the details of a landscape entirely unique in world letters, a chronicle of the