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"A novel that reveals to you the secrets of Mileva's heart, her thoughts and the passionate spirit of a scientist - a woman fighting for her place in the world of science ruled by men."
A story from a Zagreb neighborhood patiently, concentratedly, and intelligently unfolds before the reader's eyes.
This is an accusation, a slander, a personal insult. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a continuous insult, a spit in the face of Art, a kick in the ass to God, Man, Fate, Time, Love, Beauty...whatever you want.
The Buddenbrooks is not just a family chronicle – it is a profound, melancholic fresco of how time and change inexorably creep into the core of a respectable bourgeois family, bringing with them a downfall that is both tragic and inevitable.
Lana Derkač's prose is one of those rare exceptions that does not agree to race on readership charts and adapt to the laws of market logic, exceptions in which subtlety and reflection take precedence over fabularization and flirting with readers.
Although initially banned in Saudi Arabia, this novel raised a lot of dust and sparked many discussions, lawsuits, and even protests, and became an absolute bestseller in the Middle East, and now in the West.