A rózsákról

The novel follows the stream of consciousness of a rose gardener who escapes into the routine and rules of his work. From his monologue emerges how helplessness shapes the soul and how a person tries to resist it. Fateful decisions are made about his homeland, the former Yugoslavia at war, in which he can have no part, and fateful decisions are made about his body, ill and in treatment, in which he has no part either. It is an Eastern European story and a story of the masses, about how someone might take back his own story, perhaps through the strength of roses, told in long, whirling sentences.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

472 pages in the original

Genres

War, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, 1990s–2010s

First published

2021 by Magvető

ISBN

9789631423587 (original)