"Let us not mince words here: Danilo Kis's Garden, Ashes is an unmitigated masterpiece, surely not just one of the best books about the Holocaust, but one of the greatest books of the past century." Aleksandar Hemon, from the introduction

Danilo Kiš (1935-1989) was a Yugoslavian author and translator born in what is now Serbia to a Jewish father murdered at Auschwitz and an Eastern Orthodox mother. After his book A Tomb for Boris Davidovich was accused of anti-nationalism he went into self-imposed exile in France. He was awarded the Golden Eagle of the City of Nice and, just before his death in Paris in 1989, American PEN’s Bruno Schulz Prize.