Checkpoint
- Authors
- Albahari, David
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Tags
- fiction;david albahari;checkpoint;serbia;serbian;serbian literature;best serbian literature;serbian authors;yugoslavia;war;war novel;best war novels;best books about war;war stories;war literature;yugoslav wars;ellen elias-bursać;translation;books in translation;translated literature;best translated literature;refugees;military novels;soldiers;international borders;surrealism;absurdity;kafka;war correspondents;parables;fables;books in first person plural;post traumatic stress disorder;ptsd;books about ptsd;best books about ptsd;authors in exile
- Date
- 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.87 MB
- Lang
- en
**From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating and Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to guard a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be.**
Atop a hill, deep in the forest, an army unit is assigned to a checkpoint. The commander doesn’t know where they are, what border they’re protecting, or why. Their map is useless and the radio crackles with a language no one can recognize. A soldier is found dead in a latrine and the unit vows vengeance—but the enemy is unknown. Refugees arrive seeking safe passage to the other side of the checkpoint, however the biggest threat might be the soldiers themselves. As the commander struggles to maintain order and keep his soldiers alive, he isn’t sure whether he’s fighting a war or caught in a bizarre military experiment.
Equal parts *Waiting for Godot* and *Catch-22*, *Checkpoint* is a haunting and hysterical confrontation with the absurdity of war.