Ništa nije ničije

The narrator roams Belgrade's flea markets in search of old books, haggles over small sums, sits in cafés drinking coffee while he reads, and wonders what has happened to Ćoka, who said she was going away for a few days and has now been gone for months. Photographs of books, letters, diary pages, cinema tickets and market scenes are woven into the text. He has no money, since someone who spends his life sniffing out books will never get rich, and he shares his passion with Laki, a man just like him. The sellers call him the professor; he does not belong to their world, but poverty, humiliation and run-ins with the police bind him to it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

231 pages in the original

Set in

Serbia

First published

2020 by Kontrast

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9788660360818 (original)