Sami

A Zagreb family across three generations, in which everyone has quietly given up on the others and on themselves. Zvonko is a schoolteacher whose pupils pelt him with a wet sponge; his wife Marta, a journalist and translator, has just been diagnosed with a fatal illness. Their son Vedran is so indifferent to life that he could sleep through his school-leaving exams, while their daughter Dora has cut nearly all ties with the family and only sends her brother suicidal emails. The novel opens with the Zagreb earthquake and the pandemic, then rolls back through the family's lives since the 1970s, each member giving their own version, as fears and old traumas pass from parents to children.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

403 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia, 2020

First published

2021 by V.B.Z.

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9789535203971 (original)