Kako zavoljeti morskog psa?

For thirty years Ofelija, named after the heroine of Hamlet, and Kasai, whose name means blazing and impulsive in Japanese, confided in each other almost daily. Then Ofelija, obeying her depression, which the book calls Lady Nothing, withdraws into silence and cuts off all contact, leaving Kasai to live with having been declared biographical waste. Over 64 chapters Kasai, the narrator, tells their friendship through personal fiction and self-confrontation, lyrical, epistolary and philosophical passages, essays, scenes written like drama and film, and fairy-tale interludes, alongside ink drawings by Hana Lukas Midžić, Ophelia's Herbarium, that take Ofelija's side. The book asks whether a friendship can survive such a break, and what may grow from it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

255 pages in the original

First published

2019 by Sandorf

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9789533511757 (original)