Knjiga za Maju

In short, poetic prose pieces a narrator gathers fragments of the events and memories that made him: coming back to his birthplace and his home, losing people he loved, images from childhood, losing himself and finding himself again. It is an intimate story and also the portrait of a generation whose growing up was cut short by war, built on the idea that nobody can escape reality or the past, since all are shaped by the place, time and family they grew up in. Its form imitates traumatic memory, restless and falling apart as it tries to hold a self and a world together. It is also a book about love, which the name Maja hints may be an illusion, and about the hope that keeps a person moving forward.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

183 pages in the original

Genres

War, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

First published

2023 by V.B.Z.

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789535206651 (original)