Što na podu spavaš

A short novel about the breakup of a country, told with a poet's voice and a dramatist's economy. It captures the growing fear of approaching war and the naive faith in civilisation and in belonging to a community, until the irrational and savage overcome the humane. Moving back and forth between the 1990s, the Second World War and the first years of the new millennium, it crosses the fates of people who faced, directly or indirectly, the destruction of humanity: the narrator Darko, his brother Boto, their mother and father, grandmother Hana and others. Two prologues set the tone, one of them a dream of Anđelo G., who spent three years in the trenches with the narrator's brother.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

110 pages in the original

Genres

War, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1940s–2000s

First published

2020 by Književna radionica Rašić

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9788663510678 (original)