Dnevnik Marte Koen

At the end of the 1980s a woman named Marta Koen dies in Belgrade. It would all be an ordinary scene of socialist middle-class life, except that the elite of the party and the state attend her funeral. Who was this mysterious lady? Who is the monk Nikodim, accused of setting fire to her flat? Can Pavlović, a journalist on the daily Borba, make a newspaper story of it all without it becoming the story of his own life, and a shortcut to the asylum? Partisan commanders, dissidents, spiritualists, illusionists, Sigmund Freud as Marta's personal analyst and even Josip Broz, terrified of trams, crowd this picaresque adventure through the occult background of Yugoslav communism.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

281 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, late 1980s

First published

2008 by Dereta

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9788673466910 (original)