Kao da me nema
Slavenka Drakulić's novel is a harrowing story of mass rape during the Bosnian war. It has been published in sixteen countries so far, and was recently made into a feature film of the same name in an Irish-Swedish-Macedonian co-production.
A harrowing novel about mass rapes during the Bosnian war, based on real crimes against women. The main character, an unnamed woman from Bosnia, survived multiple rapes by Serbian soldiers in a women's camp in Eastern Bosnia in 1992. After liberation, she flees to Zagreb, where she tries to reconstruct the trauma through conversations with a journalist and a doctor.
The novel is her inner monologue, where the body becomes a prison, and memories – nightmares: pain, shame, the loss of a child conceived in rape. Drakulić, without sensationalism, shows how the war turns women into "invisibles" – condemned to silence, because society and the church stigmatize them as "dirty".
Through fragmentary stories, the author paints a broader context: camps, ethnic cleansing, gender violence as a weapon of war. The victim chooses abortion, but fights for justice at the Hague Tribunal, facing disbelief and oblivion. The novel is an indictment of patriarchy and war, where the female body turns into a battlefield.
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