Smokva

When Jadran's grandfather dies, he goes to Momjan, to his grandfather's house that marked his family, and tries to connect all the threads, all the details of his unsettled life, to understand his father Safet, who disappeared in 1992, left him and went to Bosnia, his mother Vesna, and his grandfather Aleksandar and his obsession with books. From Ljubljana to Momjan in Istria and the Bosanska Otoka, the main character Jadran finds parts of his family history, but even more manages to understand himself. Telling about three generations of one family, Goran Vojnović, one of the most beloved contemporary Slovenian writers, tells a magnificent story of three great loves in three unhappy marriages. Smokva is a novel about searching for the limits of one's own freedom, about sacrificing oneself for the sake of another, about giving up selfishness, but also about the great moments that happen to us when we are not aware of them. The fig is teeming with strong but suppressed emotions, and from the juicy Mediterranean, overripe fruit bursting at the seams, a family saga oozes out that could be anyone's history, in which destinies, loves, unfulfilled desires, and the harsh realities of our lives merge.