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PISTALO IS A MODERN CLASSIC

Beautifully written, immensely entertaining, and astonishingly original in the way it tells the story of a man who they used to say invented the twentieth century, but whose life is still an enigma, Tesla: A Portrait with Masks has the richness, the high jinks and the originality of such modern classics as Gnter Grasss The Tin Drum and Gabriel Garca Mrquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude. Charles Simic

Much has been written about Nikola Tesla, but Vladimir Pištalos extraordinary and profoundly original novel manages to tell us something entirely new not only about the brilliant madgenius inventor but also about the ways in which literature and the imagination can transform biography into great art. Francine Prose

Tesla is a profoundly absorbing meditation on the early, defining years of the modern age. Vladimir Pištalo has drawn a lightningetched portrait of a genius as powerful, as transformative and as mysterious as electricity itself. Ken Kalfus

Vladimir Pistalos new novel abounds with energy. His sentences crackle with fantastical images Tesla is a dynamo of a novel, and Pistalo writes as though he's fueled by a power plant of his own devising. Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

A compelling fictionalized account of inventor Nikola Teslas inscrutable and solitary life Pištalos thorough account of a great mans personality and habits is done to fine effect. Publishers Weekly

A novel aflame with the energy of a singular life Pištalos potent imagination allows him to see beyond the events into Teslas tortured heart, exposing the proud visionarys existential fears and his strange delusions Thanks to talented translators, Englishspeaking readers now share a prizewinning Serbian masterpiece. Booklist, starred review