Checkpoint
David Albahari, a noted Serbian author who lives in Canada, muscles this Kafkaesque short novel into the war-is-absurd literary tradition in one tremendous 183-page paragraph….
From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.
The four men who accompany Maud on an aid convoy couldn't be further from the cliched idea of humanitarian volunteers.
From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating and Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to guard a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be.