Danilo Kiš was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead.
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a young mother, with raw lyricism, transforms the brutal reality of Mengele's camp into a stark, immediate poem about the human spirit's endurance amidst a 'place of dragons.'
