Pas i kontrabas

The hero, a jazz double bassist who has stopped playing, carries his bulky instrument like a cursed hunchback, as if it had grown onto his back. He is trapped in an aftermath, a time when by every measure his life should already be over, and it is not. He guides the reader to places on the mental and geographical map that society has agreed not to look at too closely, or to forget: a warship of the Yugoslav Navy, the psychiatric hospital in Kovin, a deadly bank of the Danube, poisoned institutions and the hypocrisy of humanitarianism. Through flashbacks and nightmares the story passes through the fates of brilliant rebels, first and last loves and crushing abandonment, towards the sea and sunlit Genoa, its port crowded with refugees.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

303 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, Italy

First published

2019 by Orfelin

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9788660390433 (original)

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