Checkpoint

A unit holds a checkpoint in a war removed from any particular time and place, where, as the author puts it, perhaps 'our own' are attacking us without knowing we are theirs. Bizarre and tragicomic situations, often morbid, put the characters' humanity and civilised behaviour to the test. The narrative perspective keeps shifting, broken by terse dialogue and inner monologue, as the characters gradually reveal from all sides the full absurdity of their position. Though readers may look for the wars of the former Yugoslavia in it, it is a universal story about the senselessness and banality of war, the harm of prejudice and the powerlessness of the individual.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

189 pages in the original

Genres

War, Satire (assigned by AI)

First published

2011 by Stubovi kulture

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9788679793447 (original)

9781632061928 (Restless Books, United States)