What do you consider as strange? Well, my answer to that question is – these stories, they come true to their title. This book is a collection of short stories consisting of seven very diverse stories. What makes them a whole is their weirdness, oddness and bizarreness. Sometimes they leave us without revealing the meaning, …
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My Favourite Books of 2019
It’s always too hard to choose best of-s because there are many too many magnificent books read within a year. I just had to single out 15 out of 120 books I have read this year. So here they are chronologically as I have read them: 1 Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow A thing …
Elena Ferrante, Mučna ljubav
„Mučna ljubav“ prvi je roman Elene Ferrante koji se najviše izdvaja različitošću u odnosu na njezin dosadašnji opus dostupan u prijevodu (Dani zaborava, Mračna kći, Napuljska tetralogija). I dalje pratimo lik intelektualke koja puna mržnje i prezira pristupa svojoj napuljskoj prošlosti, dijalektu, djetinjstvu, rođacima i ponajviše majci. Ali za razliku od ostalih romana, ovaj od …
Domenico Starnone, Pertle
Čitajući ovaj roman i približavajući se njegovom kraju, samo mi je jedna Tolstojeva rečenica bila stalno na umu: „Sve sretne obitelji nalik su jedna na drugu, svaka nesretna obitelj nesretna je na svoj način.“ U vrlo zanimljivom i dinamičnom romanu koji se čita u dahu, Starnone nas od početka priprema za ono što ćemo otkriti …
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing / Djevojka iz močvare
SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH Kada se nešto čini kao da je predobro da bi bilo istinito, ono to obično i jest. Što je slučaj s ovom previše voljenom, obožavanom knjigom, za koju je moguće pročitati većinom I skoro isključivo pozitivne recenzije i hvale, nerijetko govoreći kako je čitaocima promijenila život. Čitajući o ovoj knjizi bila …
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Elena Ferrante, Mračna kći
Nimalo začuđujuće, već poslovično dobra, Elena Ferrante nudi nam još jedan u nizu maestralan roman. Iako kronološki prethodi Napolitanskoj tetralogiji, nimalo ne zaostaje za njom, a kao i kroz sve njezine romane protežu se isti ili slični motivi. Prekrasnim stilom i žestokom analizom likova, Ferrante, još jednom, pogađa u sridu. „Jezik za mene sadrži nekakav …
Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold
This is a work of very new and refreshing narration and shows a completely different point of view. The whole novel is an exploration of meaning, making us connect the dots, making us try to decipher a disturbed mind, sucking us in it, making us try to understand the way a different consciousness than ours …
10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
This is not only a story about a hard life of a prostitute, her life and death pains, paired with a gallery of unique and original characters, but a story about life, death, abuse, secrets and lies, life in a repressive society, the fight for freedom, the fight for the right to be different, told …
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An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
Advertised as the modern day Odyssey, I did not wait waste my time and I picked up this novel right away, but after reading pages and pages I could not find neither Odysseus, nor the Trojan war. It was only – mentioned in the text. There was Odysseus, there was Penelope, but not much to …
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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
And thirty five years later, we know how it ended. Or do we? We know how Gilead ended but we are missing what we (or at least I) have been expecting. What exactly happened to June, immediately after the ending of The Handmaid’s Tale. That seems to be the general feeling I had reading this …
A Literary Snob 