Grozota ili...

Several narrators of different ages keep dissolving and coming together again in a single person, like the pieces of a kaleidoscope that form not harmonious shapes but small monsters: the young old man, the innocent killer, the gentle bully, the brave coward. There is the voice of a child abandoned by his parents who ends up in a home for children without care, the voice of a boy exposed to violence who runs away to eastern Bosnia, the voice of a young man who goes to war, or perhaps only hallucinates it, and the voice of a senile old recluse who would like to write a book about Srebrenica but lacks the courage. It is never certain which voice holds the others together.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

234 pages in the original

Genres

War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bosnia & Herzegovina

First published

2019 by Čarobna knjiga

Author's age

73 when first published

ISBN

9788677027339 (original)