Grad u zrcalu

A writer goes down into the darker rooms of his childhood, among a large family spread between Trebinje, Nikšić and Dubrovnik. At the centre stands his father, eldest of eight children, who inherited the big stone house in L and the trade of grandfather Mato, a cattle dealer known as a mule trader in the hinterland of the coast. Gathering images from memory and from other people's stories, his father's above all, he calls up relatives close and distant who seem to him like apparitions, while distrusting autobiography itself. A manuscript kept in a drawer for some twenty years after a nightmare about a book falling apart, it is a family nocturne that follows memory rather than facts or chronology.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

350 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia

First published

2007 by Fraktura

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9789532660401 (original)