The Republic of Užupis
Uzupis (on the other side of the river) is, in reality, a neighborhood in Lithuania's capital city of Vilnius, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel, however, it is the lost homeland of a middle-aged man named Hal, who lands in Lithuania hoping to travel back to the town of his birth in order to bury his father's ashes there — in a place that might not really exist. In a literary tradition dominated by social realism, The Republic of Uzupis is a unique work of melancholy, Murakami-esque whimsy.
- Author
- Haïlji, Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781628970654
- Genres
- literature
- Release date
- 2014
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