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In Prijedor, a small town in Bosnia, thirty years after World War II, two "skyscrapers" rise – red and blue. In the red sky, the lives of residents of different destinies, nations and religions intertwine.
Andreas Ban is a writer and psychologist, above all an intellectual full of empathy, but his world has been collapsing for years, and when he retires into a miserable retirement and learns that he is ill, he takes a fresh look at the fragments of his life
Perhaps the greatest virtue of Velikić's writing, which culminated in this novel, is his extraordinarily refined feeling for life's details, which he depicts and evokes with an almost shamanic power of materialization.
Due to its fragmentary and concise form, Matchbox leaves the impression of a mosaic – each story functions independently, but together they create a picture of a world marked by silence, tension, and unspoken emotions.
These stories will make us laugh, but also imperceptibly take us to the other, dark side...
A short, suspenseful crime novel full of witty dialogue and characters who speak like real people, not Hollywood gangsters. It's also the first major appearance of Raylan Givens (later the main character of the series Justified).