The Olcinium Trilogy [Paperback]

The Olcinium Trilogy brings together three of Nikolaidis’ short novels:The Son,The ComingandTill Kingdom Come, which together encompass an apocalyptic vision of this ancient town; where mystics have prophesized, regimes plotted against their citizenry and ordinary people resorted to crime and deceit in order to survive. Like his literary hero, Thomas Bernhard, Nikolaidis’ prose is precise and bitingly funny and his protagonists hopeless misanthropes: from the local sleuth who sacrifices truth for the sake of telling his clients the stories they want to hear to the local reporter who discovers that his own past was concocted by Yugoslav secret services and enters a state of time-traveling paranoia.

"Imagine Dashiell Hammett meeting Umberto Eco, and both of them meeting Orhan Pamuk! If there is justice in the world, Nikolaidis' novel should become a bestseller bigger than the novels of James Patterson or John Grisham. And since there is no justice in the world, let us hope that a divine caprice will nonetheless make this insanely readable page-turner a mega success." —Slavoj }i~ek

"Makes Samuel Beckett look positively cheery; yet the relentless pessimism has an oddly invigorating effect.'' —Five Star Review inIndependent

An ardent supporter of Montenegrin independence, anti-war activist and promoter of human rights, especially minority rights,Andrej Nikolaidisinitially became known for his political views, appearing on local television and in newspapers with his razor-sharp political commentaries. He writes regular columns for the daily newspaperVijesti, and the weekly news magazineSlobodna Bosna. He has recently written a number of articles for theGuardian.Will Firthis a translator from Russian, Macedonian and all variants of Serbo-Croatian.