Materinska knjižica

A young woman's life is shaken by one loss after another: the death of her beloved grandmother, a miscarriage in the ninth week of pregnancy, and a hereditary weakening of her hearing that threatens her with the frightening silence of deafness. Her story is not told by her but by her unborn son, Tobija, who watches her from outside and from a child's point of view, knows all her thoughts and says what usually remains unspoken. Written without capital letters, in fragments and repetitions, the book is divided into parts with titles such as the absence of light and the absence of sounds, and shows how the grief of losing a child is barely understood, even taboo, in society.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

141 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

First published

2022 by LUD Literatura

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9789617165197 (original)