Kroz perspektivu Sare, pripovjedačice ovog romana, spisateljice, vidimo prošlost i sadašnjost njenog života, vidimo njezino prijateljstvo s Le(j)lom, dječju zaljubljenost u Armina, rat, vjersku i nacionalnu netrpeljivost, bijeg iz Bosne u Irsku i njezin neočekivani nagli povratak. Slijedimo zeca koji skače naprijed i nazad kako bi i njoj i nama pokazao više o svemu, o …
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Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Real Life is an emotional, delicate story about real, ordinary life, about what real life makes of us, how life changes and influences people throughout their lives, how it makes them come to conclusions about life itself. It is a story about abuse, rape, cruelty, inequality, racism, (abusive) relationships, insecurities, religious fanaticism and primitivism, the …
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Isn’t it such a shame when a book starts off wonderfully: interesting, dynamic, original, just to continue and end in a completely different tone. By the end How Much of These Hills Is Gold lost all of its novelty and freshness. It turned into unskillfully written chapters filled with incredibility and tackiness. The main thread …
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If We Were Villains or How Shakespeare Can Ruin Your Life
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” There are books and there are books. Some books have perfect style, bring something new to literature or describe the current modern era. There are books that are fun, soothing or just a good choice for our mood at the moment. But there are also …
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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
This Mournable Body is a powerful, gut-wrenching novel, a novel that leaves you with a feeling of uneasiness, a feeling of nausea, a queasiness deep inside. It is a novel about a lost woman, a woman torn between her family legacy and history, her own past, the past of her country, her own expectations and …
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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Is it at all possible to say that real life is too tragic? That anything in real life can be too tragic? That there can be too much tragedy? Not at all, because life is too often too tragic. However, fiction can be too tragic because fiction (although it can be based on real life …
Elena Ferrante, Lažljivi život odraslih / The Lying Life of Adults
Scroll down for English Ferrante počinje uobičajeno žestoko, udarcem šake u glavu, direktno, beskompromisno uvodi nas u vrtlog svog pripovijedanja. Tijekom romana stalno se isprepliću i smjenjuju razni trenutni pokretači radnje: ljepota, obiteljska sličnost, laži, tajne, misteriozna teta Vittoria, narukvica, idealni Roberto. Cijeli roman vrtlog je zbivanja i nadasve vrtlog emocija koji povremeno prerasta u uragan. …
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Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Rainy, dark, nature, summer surroundings for intertwined stories that altogether make a disturbing whole. These are the stories of twelve residents of a small lakeside cottage holiday settlement that intermingle, correspond to each other and continue each other. A holiday “community” made of strangers that are uninterested in each other, unconnected and that have scarcely …
Jenny Erpenbeck, Večer svih dana
Što nam je sudbina? Što je sudbina svakog pojedinačnog čovjeka i možemo li utjecati na nju? Određuje li svaki naš potez budućnost direktno ili ju određuje nešto drugo, izvanjsko, nešto više ili možda nešto niže? Kada bismo promijenili „loš kraj“ što bi se tada dogodilo? Loš kraj života, loš kraj priče. Bi li onda život …
I Give It to You by Valerie Martin
Why do people choose to write, discuss, investigate, study historical periods, times and places unconnected to themselves and to their own heritage, history, country and continent they come from? Why would an Italian have to be annoyed with an American writing about Mussolini decades after World War II? Actually, there shouldn’t be a reason. I, …
A Literary Snob 