Apsint

The novel follows two men with the same name, Mihajlo Alić, who share nothing but bad luck and a taste for absinthe. The first, a Belgrader studying medicine in Vienna, is forcibly mobilised into the Great War; captured when the Austro-Hungarian army attacks Serbia, he is taken to Irig, escapes ingloriously, and after the monarchy collapses all trace of him is lost. The second, a native of Irig, is a Serbian volunteer and later a respected surgeon in Pančevo. After the war he is arrested and accused of having been a secret censor for the Kundschafter, forging stolen letters of Serbian soldiers and prisoners to extract military intelligence; he is convinced the charge rests on a mistaken identity.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

157 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, Austria, 1910s

First published

2005 by Stubovi kulture

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9788679791115 (original)