Slučaj Bremen

Ivan Bazarov puts together his own life from the stories of others: his stepfather, his mother, his grandfather, his lover Olivera, and his father, who disappeared in a camp near Bremen. Through them the novel follows one family from the First World War to the breakup of Yugoslavia, across a Central European map of Odessa and Belgrade, Subotica and Marienbad, Budapest, Bremen, Rijeka, Trieste and, over the Atlantic, Milwaukee. Rather than reconstructing history, it brings places and eras to life through street and hotel names, railway lines and tram routes, while a mystery around Bremen and a question of identity are slowly pieced together for the reader.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

220 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Czechia, United States, 1914–1990s

First published

2001 by Stubovi kulture

Author's age

48 when first published