Knjiga od žena, muškaraca, gradova i rastanaka

How many years must pass to understand a sentence uttered long ago, how many emotional obstacles must be overcome to hear a child's cry, how many family stories must be hidden in order to be able to live at all, how many times must one move in order to feel happiness, how many clocks must be changed in order to die on time, are just some of the themes of this book of stories and tales by Julijana Matanović.

Twelve of them, divided into units about women, men, cities and farewells, are united by connecting threads, so that the stories can be moved from block to block without losing any of the accuracy of their location. Regardless of whether they contain four or thirty pages, we find numerous details in all of them, we feel the trembling of the atmosphere and recognize the wealth of emotions, so that after reading each one, it seems to us as if we have read a great novel.

With "A Book of Men, Women, Cities and Farewells", Julijana Matanović decided to return to the style of storytelling that has made her one of the most widely read contemporary Croatian writers. That is precisely why the spirit of her most popular books "Why Did I Lied to You" and "Notes on the Writer" will constantly hover over the minds of the readers of this book and return them not only to the time of discovering the beauty of this extraordinary writer's handwriting, but also to their own lives, not only today and here, but also to the one that is long behind them.