White Shroud - Anatanas Skema

White Shroud (balta Drobule, 1958) Is Considered By Many As The Most Important Work Of Modernist Fiction In Lithuanian. Drawing Heavily On The Authors Own Refugee And Immigrant Experience, This Psychological, Stream-of-consciousness Work Tells The Story Of An Emigre Poet Working As An Elevator Operator In A Large York Hotel During The Mid-1950s. Using Multiple Narrative Voices And Streams, The Novel Moves Through Sharply Contrasting Settings And Stages In The Narrators Life In Lithuania Before And During World War Ii, Returning Always To York And The Recent Immigrants Struggle To Adapt To A Completely Different, And Indifferent, Modern World.