O čemu ne govorimo

Her stories will shake you to the core and force you to face difficult questions. Everyone knows that they are mortal and that they deteriorate with age, but who can come to terms with that? We don't like to talk or think about illness and death, about loss and defeat, about betrayal, shame, failure or grief. These topics are deeply hidden because today's time favors youth, beauty, speed, with a handful of cheerful and banal content. But Slavenka Drakulić, one of our most translated writers and journalists, in her new collection of stories What We Don't Talk About, has tackled the taboos of contemporary society - her focus is on old age, illness and weakness. Slavenka Drakulić tells the story of marital relationships that disintegrate over time and turn into petty reproaches and permanent resentment, of newfound passion in adulthood, of our imprisonment in the body, of the fact that all our thoughts, all our creativity, all our aspirations and desires, all our psychophysical progress depend on the very thin skin that holds our bodies together. Stories About What We Don't Talk About will shake you to the core, take you on an emotional rollercoaster ride, and force you to ask yourself difficult questions – including the most difficult one, your own duration in time.