Balla

Balla creates a beautiful, thought-provoking, often funny portrait of human frailty. Consisting of fragments newspaper reports, TV news items, conversations, letters, voice messages and police reports related to a fragile middle-aged woman, Vargová, and her drug and alcohol dependent therapist, Dr Feleslegi. It is...

Andrič and his girlfriend Laura have been seeing each other for a long time now but it isn't clear what each sees in the other.Self-absorbed, delusional, or just a regular couple?Author: BallaISBN-10: 0993446787ISBN-13: 9780993446788Publisher: Jantar PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2020Pages: 126Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w...

Dead is Balla's most recent book and marks a glorious return to the short story form. The stories are very topical dealing with the theme of masculinity, how that is expressed in different forms of aggressive nationalism, Slovak 'nativism' and delusional male interior monologues....

An award-winning Slovak novella and three additional short stories. This collection, by an author described as "the Slovak Kafka", shares a unique dark humor, along with a commitment to satire and truth. The novella features a nameless narrator reflectinAuthor: BallaISBN-10: 0993377351ISBN-13: 9780993377358Publisher: Jantar PublishingLanguage:...