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Twilight of the vampires:
Hunting the real-life undead
By Téa Obreht
Téa Obreht’s first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, will be published by Random House in March 2011.
Three days before my flight to Serbia, the Devil intervenes: my mother, who is supposed to meet me in Belgrade, falls into a chasm on a Moscow sidewalk and shatters her ankle. That she has gone through life without ever having broken a bone before makes her, according to her own mother, a casualty of my intentions. It is a bad sign. My grandmother, waiting for me in Belgrade, advises me to cancel my trip; her fears are reinforced the following morning by a phone call from one of my Serbian contacts—a journalist who was supposed to meet with me has gotten wind of my mother’s accident and pulled out of her agreement to help. “What now?” my grandmother asks, and fumes when she hears that I am determined to press on.
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| SEE ALSO: Career as vampire; Croatia; Journeys—Balkan Peninsula; Blagojevic, Petar; Serbia and Montenegro; Obreht, Téa; Vampires | |||||||||
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