Danas je sreda

The narrator, a man from Zemun on the threshold of old age, takes on the care of his ageing father, who has Parkinson's disease. The illness slowly and unpredictably wears down the father's body and mind. Faced with this daily decline, the son also confronts the father's past: the old man, once passionate, powerful and finally defeated, punished and cast out, stays loyal to his discredited convictions to the end. Torn between the father's failing body and the traces of earlier events, the son looks in that past for the roots of later evil, caught between refusing his father's authority and caring for him with tenderness.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

155 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia

First published

2017 by Čarobna knjiga

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9788677025274 (original)