Tiho rušenje

Trained to teach literature, the narrator has stopped waiting for a school post and makes his living as a house painter. With his assistant he takes on a shabby flat in Haulikova Street in central Zagreb: strip the walls bare, then paint them again, a quiet and solitary routine far from intrusive people, just as he likes it. But the man who hired them has an unusual life story, and as the old layers come off the walls, the lives of both men start to rearrange themselves. Two parallel storylines run through the book until they meet, one explaining the other, with a love story, a hint of the thriller, secrets slowly uncovered and, at its core, a father's bond with his child.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

151 pages in the original

Set in

Croatia

First published

2017 by V.B.Z.

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9789533049410 (original)