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Behind the grotesque backdrop of the 1999 bombing and of men hiding from mobilisation, the Serbian writer Džoni Glintić is writing a novel with one clear purpose: to win the respected literary award of the Serbian Sugar Factory. The prize, and the idea of a prize, thus becomes the novel's real patron. Writing to order and for an award, the book mocks form, norms and genre, plays with its own narrator, with reality, tradition, history and ethics, and tests the novel itself, with the black humour that sharpens hopelessness and absurdity in the author's earlier work.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Satire, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, 1999

First published

2003 by Narodna knjiga – Alfa

Author's age

41 when first published