The Mountain - Antonelli, David
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Set in Yugoslavia during the Croatian War of Independence, The Mountain opens when American journalist John Anderson discovers a few days before Serbian troops are due to take over their village that his musician wife Anna was involved in yearlong affair that she had just ended. He forgives her at first as they are in the midst of desperately planning their escape through a war zone to the border to Hungary. But only a few days into their journey they meet a soldier and his distrust of Anna re-emerges when she and the soldier seem to have mysteriously disappeared together. In a fit of jealousy…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Set in Yugoslavia during the Croatian War of Independence, The Mountain opens when American journalist John Anderson discovers a few days before Serbian troops are due to take over their village that his musician wife Anna was involved in yearlong affair that she had just ended. He forgives her at first as they are in the midst of desperately planning their escape through a war zone to the border to Hungary. But only a few days into their journey they meet a soldier and his distrust of Anna re-emerges when she and the soldier seem to have mysteriously disappeared together. In a fit of jealousy he abandons her altogether on suspicion of further cheating and ventures forth across a mountain on an odyssey of self-discovery. When he encounters a massacre in a small village he starts to wonder if he has made a mistake and unwittingly endangered her life. He then tries desperately to find her and save her from the tragic fate he believes he helped create. Like Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls in its portrayal of war and its effect on human relationships, but with a deeper sense of psychological introspection, The Mountain is Antonelli's poetic novel to date. The Mountain is the second part of the Andrássy ut trilogy, which begins with The Forest and is a series of three thematically related novellas with American protagonists based in Eastern Europe exploring love and deception against the background of modern life.
Autorenporträt
David Antonelli was born in Chicago in 1963. He was educated at The University of Alberta, Oxford, Caltech, and MIT. In 2010 he published his first novel The Narcissist, followed by The False Man, Inbetween, The Forest, The Mountain, The Candidate, The Architect, The Frozen Ocean, The Black Tide, The Sleep, and The Lipstick Empire. His film credits include Inbetween (2008), which was nominated for awards at several international film festivals, Finding Rudolf Steiner (Documentary, Official Selection Calgary International Film Festival 2006, now available on DVD), Lucifer Gnosis (short), Forever (16 mm short), Dreaming (16 mm short, named in top three at the Montreal International Student Film Festival, 1989), La Toyson D'Or (16 mm short), and The Chalk Elephant (16 mm short). He currently lives in Cardiff and teaches at Lancaster University.