''Peščanik'' is a 1972 novel by Yugoslav novelist

Danilo Kiš Danilo Kiš (; born Dániel Kiss; 22 February 1935 – 15 October 1989) was a Yugoslav and Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include ''Hourglass'', '' A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'' and '' The En ...

, translated as ''Hourglass'' by Ralph Manheim (1990). Hourglass tells the account of the final months in a man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp. Hourglass is in part based on the life of the author's Jewish father, who was murdered in

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

.David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant - Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide - Page 277 1611683599 2012 "If this sounds vaguely familiar, it is because this novel by the Serbo-Croatian Danilo Kiš hearkens back to Borges's 1943 ... Hourglass can also be read as the author's loving portrait of his Jewish father, also named Eduard and also a retired ..."

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{{reflist 1972 novels Serbian novels Novels set in Serbia