In the novel "Miraculous Clouds" we meet a young woman, Josee, who vainly resists her husband's sick jealousy and her insatiable passion.
Her husband Alan cut her off from the world, not because he loved her, but because he didn't love the world and was dragging her along with him into his personal, self-centered madness.
At the end of the eighties, Damir Uzunović traveled to Paris and stayed there for less than a year. He was twenty years old at the time, and that exile episode would be formative for the literature he would later write.
Buybook, 2024.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
12.22 €
Francuska književnost • Historical novel • Novel
A Serbian writer known for his satirical novels, Andrić's Ladder of Horrors dissects the Balkan mentality through a parable of Yugo-nostalgia and national myths. The title alludes to Ivo Andrić as a litmus test for criticism – Balkans claim him or reject