U kući i u vrtu bilo je mnogo cvijeća

A woman goes back over her life through fragments of memory and flashbacks, lists of everyday objects, photographs and documents: her childhood in the 1980s in a house full of flowers with the couple who took her in and raised her, her youth and her present. She portrays both the parents who brought her up and her troubled birth mother and father. Behind the lace curtains, the porcelain and Zepter cookware and the constant concern with what is 'proper', the house kept family silences in which nothing was ever quite right. Only after her mother's death can the grown woman examine the hurts of growing up in a foster family, along with illness, estrangement and the search for her biological origins.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

228 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia, 1980s to today

First published

2025 by OceanMore

ISBN

9789533322087 (original)