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Sofija Atanasijević, a doctor of philosophy and a campaigner for human rights and for the poor, sees her world collapse when she watches, on a morning programme, the death of her husband, an interpreter riding in the car of a prominent businessman when a bomb planted in it explodes. Three years later she still has not once stepped out of her flat, out of fear, disgust and resignation. She wants to cut all ties with a society full of lies and dirt, but cannot: an armed sniper who has just assassinated the economy minister from the roof of her building forces his way into her refuge. The novel, full of humour, asks whether we are all hostages of a wrong system of values.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

228 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia

First published

2009 by Plato

ISBN

9788644704812 (original)