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The heroine lives in today's Belgrade, a city squeezed between its patriarchal small-town base, the old bourgeois and socialist modern layers that survive as backdrops, and an aggressive new peripheral capitalism that swallows everything, including the lifestyles of urban hipsters. She works for a non-governmental organisation and is more and more disgusted by the job, its language and its rituals, though the alternatives within reach look even worse. Poised between youth and early middle age, she moves through clashes at work, night wanderings in search of good-enough oblivion, and an unstable love affair with a certain Vincent, who both is and is not there. Her drab family background frames her growing up.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

143 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, 2010s

First published

2018 by Kontrast

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9788660360061 (original)