Испод таванице која се љуспа

The book, which its author calls a cinema novella, tells the history of a small town through its local cinema, the Uranija, built in the 1930s and later renamed Sutjeska, and through the story of the hotel that stood on the site before it. At its centre is a gallery of portraits of everyone present at one fateful screening, cut short by the stunning news of Marshal Tito's death, along with a few figures who mattered in the place's past. Beneath a ceiling painted like the sky, which is beginning to flake, the hall and its audience become a parable of Serbian society and its dreams, from the interwar years through socialism to the wars and transition of the 1990s.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

183 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, 1930s–1990s

First published

2010 by Novosti

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9788674461587 (original)