Pristanište

On an island, behind the door of a house facing a landing where boats come and go and tourists arrive for their souvenirs, a man works patiently and in secret. At the start his wife or lover leaves him, saying she has tried everything and can go on no longer, and he gives himself over to his obsession with wood: he is building a boat inside the house, prising up its wooden floors, so that as the boat grows the house disappears. Telling his story in the first person, he chalks a three-phase plan on the wall, counts his working hours and days of rest, records what he sees in a slow, contemplative rhythm and wrestles with time, work and a tiring body, while two chapters look back at the couple's past.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

143 pages in the original

Set in

Croatia

First published

2020 by Fraktura

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9789533582924 (original)