A novel of london, paperback/milos crnjanski

Fiction.

Translated by Will Firth.

A NOVEL OF LONDON is a classic of European modernism that established Serbian writer Milos Crnjanski as one of the great eastern European voices of the 20th century.

The over-600-page translation will be the first English edition.

Published in Belgrade in 1971 as Roman o Londonu , the novel follows an aging Russian migr , Nikolai Repnin, as he attempts to make a life in the British capital in the 1940s, painting a stark portrait of the war-battered city through the eyes of a person living in a constant state of rejection and alienation.

Born a Russian noble in pre-revolutionary St.

Petersburg, Repnin is now reduced to eking out a living from odd jobs in the huge city, whose buildings, monuments, citizens and customs he portrays with fascination.

As Repnin wanders the streets and the bureaucracy of the bombed-out city, reminiscing about his opulent past in Russia and subsequent odyssey through Europes cities after the Revolution, he encounters a host of migr s from around the world, whose stories also unfold.

A pan-European portrait of class structures and the real effects of the war emerges, a vision whose depth and scope may be unmatched in 20th century literature.