David Albahari is one of the most prominent writers to emerge from the formerYugoslavia in the last twenty years. His serious understated explorations ofthe sel... » 

David Albahari is one of the most prominent writers to emerge from the formerYugoslavia in the last twenty years. His serious understated explorations ofthe self have influenced many writers of his native lands younger generation.The narrator of Bait has just exiled himself to Canada after the collapse ofYugoslavia and the death of his mother. As he listens to a series of audiotapes recorded by his mother years before the narrator ponders her life andtheir relationship while simultaneously trying to come to terms with a new lifeof his own one of exile and the confusion of a new language and culture.Bait is an exquisitely crafted novel that exhibits the wit and raw honestyAlbaharis readers have long admired. «