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In this epistolary novel two brothers write each other emails from New York and from the Banat, telling of their American and Serbian daily lives. The younger, a rising playwright, is on a three-week fellowship in the United States, the family's pride from whom much is still expected. At home are their ailing elderly father and caring mother, a younger sister settled in Belgrade, and the long shadows of the ancestors and the childhood they grew up in. Through the family's trials the brothers look into the past for answers to their own doubts, and the last decade of Serbian life speaks through their letters.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

113 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, United States, 2000s

First published

2011 by Arhipelag

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9788652300105 (original)