Vladimir Pistalo was born in Sarajevo in 1960. He studied law in Belgrade and Sarajevo and received a PhD in American history from the University of New Hampshire. He is currently a professor of liberal arts at Becker College in Massachusetts where he teaches US and world history. Pistalo’s first story came out in a literary magazine when he was 18, and his first book was published when he was 21. Since that time, he has published eleven books of fiction, ranging from poetic prose to novels, and his stories have been included in major anthologies of Serbian and Bosnian prose. His novel MILLENNIUM IN BELGRADE has been translated into four languages and was a finalist for the Prix Femina, a prize for the best translated novel in France. TESLA: A PORTRAIT WITH MASKS won the NIN Literary Award, the most prestigious literary award in Serbia, for best novel in 2008, and has already appeared in 10 languages. This is his first book to be translated into English.

Books by Vladimir Pistalo

Tesla: A Portrait with Masks

by Vladimir Pistalo - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Nikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to his tumultuous years in New York City, where his heated rivalry with Thomas Edison yielded triumphs and failures, Tesla was both demonized and lionized. TESLA: A PORTRAIT WITH MASKS captures the whirlwind years of the dawn of the electrical age, when his flair for showmanship kept him in the public eye.