Bog Vadraca i Madžara

Branko Grujić is an unlucky bridegroom who lives through a youthful failure and its frustrations just before and during the stormy year of 1848, and tries to make rational sense of them. He is neither a peasant nor an intellectual, yet something of both in his skills and his thinking: resourceful, patient, bearing misfortunes without tears or questions about the meaning of life, wrestling with a fate he did not choose. Around his story the novel takes up the great questions of history, of relations between two peoples over the centuries, and of religious and other fanaticism, told by a narrator who observes with more comedy than tragedy, though the times are catastrophic.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

269 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

First published

2001 by Aurora

ISBN

9788675380061 (original)