Zovite me Esteban
Lejla Kalamujić's collection Call Me Esteban is an authentic testimony about the fate of a family whose writing is a kind of act of courage and facing the darkest, most difficult thing in a person.
Through the nineteen stories in the collection (Edo Budiša Award for the best collection of short stories in a field that does not require translation into Croatian, 2016), we follow the heroine's emotional journey from unreliable memories of her mother who died early, through her childhood with an alcoholic father who is never there, grandparents who slowly dissipate and die before her eyes, a country that is falling apart, a world that is changing, and all the way to discovering sexuality and the worries that existence brings. The motif of the mother seems to run through all of them like an omnipresent spiritus movens and unobtrusively guides us through the heroine's emotional life, introducing us to pre-war, wartime and post-war Sarajevo, paradise, mixed marriages, Šid as a place of refuge, hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital – with Eros and Thanatos.
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