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Antiklimaks

Author(s): Vasilije Glomazić / Language(s): Serbian

The talented Slobodan Karl lives and writes anticlimax. For fifteen years he has been trying desperately to write “the best novel in the world” by which he will cross the self-imposed limit and call himself a writer - a man who lives exclusively from writing. As a guide for weekend trips, he turns interesting ideas into weak endings, and in relation to people - impressive first impressions into disappointments. Slobodan is convinced that in order to turn his talent into success, he needs material security and time, which exist in his life as mutual exclusivity. Uncertain, he finds solace in superficial relationships. When his life is further complicated by the divorce and the condition of his son, Slobodan is ready to do what he can do best - write another average novel that no one needs, least of all. A chance meeting with Dušan Jadrančić, a self-proclaimed risk trader and a man of seemingly vague intentions, will initiate a series of emotional and structural changes in Slobodan that will bring him to the brink of success.

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Dijagnoza

Author(s): Nada Kaurin Knežević / Language(s): Croatian

Minimalist, stylistically refined, these dialogical stories, which carry a strong dramatic charge that revolves around the usual and seemingly banal, with their powerful and everyday language will attract every reader and put in front of us a mirror that sometimes mocks us, sometimes comforts us, but most of all it shows us the different modes of modern living. Stories populated by undercover homosexuals who don't have the strength to get out of the closet, people who hide their failures, Instagram addicts and primitive traditionalists, adulterers and failed romantics, open in different faces - me, you, us - and so their grammar suggests who and to whom they speak.

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Hadžiluk plemenitom snu

Author(s): Boris Maksimović / Language(s): Serbian

“Pilgrimage to a Noble Dream” is a collection of about thirty travelogues from various parts of Europe, created as a result of six years of wandering, hiking, hitchhiking, student exchanges and excursions, or simply travel that was a purpose in itself. There are no great adventures and unexplored landscapes in this book, because the children of post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina could not survive much less than that. Most of the places described in the book are cities, from Granada and Bari, through Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam to Copenhagen, and these cities have been described and presented countless times in popular culture, but because of that they are even more challenging because they provide an opportunity to follow in other people's footsteps and search for ourselves in them. This collection was created as a result of endless hunger for travel, a sense of excitement once we find ourselves on the road, and sometimes disappointment when we realize that this trip was just a pilgrimage to our noble dream.

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Hartvorm

Author(s): Pavle Aleksić / Language(s): Serbian

Pavle Aleksić's stories are short, polished and full of quiet sadness. It is as if time has stopped in them, and the characters have remained to cope in this alienated world without a future. They talk about unsuccessful attempts for man to find his place under the sun, about the inability of two beings to achieve communication, about the inability to stay and an even greater inability to return. The sadness of thousands and thousands of kilometers traveled was distilled in them, after which no goal was reached. They bring us an America where there is no place for anyone's dream. But, despite all that, they provide a kind of comfort and warmth, the knowledge that we are not alone, the realization that we are alive in a world that continues to pulsate and lasts in spite of everything.

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Herbarij svete smrti

Author(s): Mihaela Šumić / Language(s): Croatian

Short stories by Mihaela Šumić

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Iza vrata

Author(s): Emina Elezović / Language(s): Serbian

Collection of poems by Emina Elezović

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Junak bez lica

Author(s): Fedor Marjanović / Language(s): Serbian

Fedor Marjanović, with his suggestive title “Hero without a face”, points us to the question of who and what kind of hero could be a person without a face and whether the title of the book is a tempting trap or completely different heroes are hiding behind it. And what is it that holds together Marjanović's hero and his story in this unusual and brave first book? For starters, this could be part of the answer - strangeness, otherness, a strange eclecticism that unites the incompatible and draws us into a world that walks the edges of the grotesque, the boundaries of the imaginary and the real, alternating in unexpected twists and turns. What Marjanović's stories, in some places through the gentle influence of fiction, and in others through the introduction of the harsh and brutal reality of the partocratic world, want to answer is - what is wrong with the world we live in.

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Kamenite priče

Author(s): Milka Kolundžić / Language(s): Serbian

Short stories by Milka Kolundžić

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Lutak

Author(s): Radmila Karlaš / Language(s): Bosnian

It is difficult to describe the way Radmila Karlaš writes, because it really is not something that is encountered every day. Her stories take place in an undefined time that may be ours, but it may also be fifty or a hundred years ago, because they are deprived of everything that could be burdensome in terms of a specific timeline, and focused on the essential. There are only people in them, their mutual relations and the forces that affect them, and which do not have to be from this world. And it's something that sometimes makes you shudder, because those stories are sometimes on the verge of fantasy, but it's not epic, or science fiction, or some fiction from horror literature, but something that strikes at the very core of our collective imagination and doesn't stop until we don’t stop with reading, and sometimes after. Radmila's language is extremely polished, her descriptions are clear and we can easily imagine everything she writes about in front of our eyes. And because of that, everything we read leaves an even stronger impression on us.

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Monument

Author(s): Berislav Blagojević / Language(s): Serbian

In the book “Monument”, Berislav Blagojević writes twenty-one short stories in which he expresses a wide range of interests in various aspects of reality, which are considered and shaped into a literary text. Thus, starting from the existence of Don Quixote (and all serious writers, in a way, necessarily refer to Cervantes' novel), the writer creates and introduces us to an imaginary space in which the present constantly confronts the past, where in an undisguised critical tone, and with an ironic manner, points to the anomalies of human existence at the beginning of the third millennium; then there is the postmodernist play with the book, the library, reading and the very act of creation; further, removing layers of historical dust from documents and turning them into fiction; emotional evocation of the past, etc.

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Mulat albino komarac

Author(s): Stevo Grabovac / Language(s): Serbian

A novel by Stevo Grabovac

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Nekoliko sitnih uboda

Author(s): Mihaela Šumić / Language(s): Croatian

This is poetry that does not run away from confessional, but the author does not intend to present her childhood struggle to the readers and burden us with personal experiences. Her obsession is more with the world she sees, the one around her, closer and further, foreboding in the past and the one that is just becoming through forebodings - one at the same time a magical and cruelly naked world, all built in opposites. In tenderness and rudeness. This is where the strength, dynamism and beauty of her poetry begins. And in the ability to easily describe things in many ways and from completely different and often opposing perspectives. Her range of interests, which find their place in poetry, is very wide - from philosophy, through classical art, feminist icons, geography, tourist maps of cities, to pop culture. Here, in the same place, you will meet Aztec and Mayan gods, heroes and heroines of Mexican series, paintings from the Sistine Chapel, women from Caravaggio's paintings, heroes from anime, Roman goddesses and many close, everyday deities that the author revives before us, which she finds on the streets of distant cities or on a bus while driving to work.

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Nervus vagus i druge priče

Author(s): Milanka Blagojević / Language(s): Serbian

The book consists of three cycles, “Express pot”, “Nervus vagus” and “Letters”. Every story, especially those in the cycle “Express pot”, suggest unresolved emotional tensions / relationships / situations that culminate in the kitchen and with food. Blagojević places these primordial, traditional spaces of women's business in and around the kitchen on a new level and transforms them into spaces of culmination or resolution of the inner dramas of her heroines. The stories told in this way reveal a new dimension of sauerkraut, polenta or meat hammers because they cease to be food or tools in the kitchen and become a symbol of rebellion, disapproval, social disintegration, social status. Overall, “Nervus Vagus and Other Stories” is a collection of likable and readable stories that will easily win over readers with a strong emotional charge, interesting influences in everyday life and a constant walk between the tragic and the comic and make them look at seemingly ordinary things from a different perspective.

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Petodinarke

Author(s): Goran Dakić / Language(s): Serbian

This book deserves attention and positive criticism, primarily because it is a strongly engaged anti-war reminder of the refugee suffering, the forgotten column of the poor, the trouble from which God seems to have given up. Without any embellishment and idealization, often characteristic of children's literature, even naturalistic refinement you would say, Dakić records and literary shapes his memories. The book “Fiver” is characterized by narrative polyphony and skillfully organized auto-referential text. In it, different destinies, stories and confessions touch and intertwine. They literally flow from several branches, as towards the Danube, and merge towards Željko Nišević and his life story, his discreet heroism. They flow like individual refugee destinies that merged into an indelible column of the main road of recent history.

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Prije kabura – mrak

Author(s): Feđa Gudić / Language(s): Bosnian

“Before death – darkness” in 24 short stories illuminates a whole spectrum of human nature and inclinations: it includes silent righteous, noble, invertebrates, thugs, indifferent villains, comrades, people on the last frontier of common sense. In this collection, every reluctant tick, twitch of eyelid or body speaks more about interpersonal relationships than exalted dialogue or surprising twists. And no matter how much they lack great works of Promethean proportions, Zaim, Hasan, Asim, Meho the Butcher, Dr. Crnac still get a space where all the human spirit with a lot of humor comes to life in everyday, almost trivial earthquakes, in which they themselves are so realistically portrayed that someone may say with certainty that their existence and action are not so much imaginary as witnessed. And the ease of language and expression with which it is witnessed - in addition to keeping the reader's attention on the most important, difficult to perceive details - is the greatest value of such stories. Yet the latent melancholy behind that humor cannot and must not be overlooked, a kind of disappointment that hovers over every optimistic, promising start. That is why there is darkness before everyone's grave, whether in the background or not, with which no one manages to maneuver constantly or to hide from. The sensitivity of this collection is in the darkness that is briefly - in certain moments of absurdity and laughter - forgotten.

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Rodeo u Donjem Vakufu

Author(s): Zoran Plavšić / Language(s): Serbian

Zoran Plavšić writes about conductors, caterers, peasants, soldiers, old teachers, Roma, neighbor's children and he treats all of them with equal respect, understanding and empathy. In short, he loves all their flaws and is able to present them to the reader so that he loves them too. Plavšić's stories in a beautiful way continue the tradition of Serbian realistic short stories, they feel the influence of Glišić, Kočić, Ćopić, and even Stanković, but this is not about imitation, but about mutual respect for the “little man” and his destiny. And there is something else in his stories worth mentioning, and that is the belief that it is the usual, everyday and seemingly irrelevant in our everyday life and our immediate environment at the same time and what makes most of our days, what, when the line is drawn, is our life, and that it is precisely what seems irrelevant to us that connects us with people from all meridians. The struggle to make ends meet, aging, transience, unfulfilled expectations, all our personal struggles are at the same time the struggles of millions of other people, and the story of one of us is actually the story of all of us.

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Spam

Author(s): Lazar Pašćanović / Language(s): Serbian

A novel by Lazar Pašćanović

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Stojadin i druge priče

Author(s): Feđa Gudić / Language(s): Bosnian

Short stories by Feđa Gudić

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U jarku

Author(s): Slađana Nina Perković / Language(s): Serbian

When the heroine of this novel, who also played the role of narrator, is run into the room by her mother and interrupted by watching her favorite crime series, the readers begin to discover the almost insane and chaotic world of the story, made up of events like the funeral of Aunt Stana, drowned with a piece of chicken, and thus shattered plans to sell the family home and land, a world filled with unusual visits to police stations and clinics, heroes who unsuccessfully attempt suicide, those who erect monuments to themselves years ago or experience a personal renaissance after deciding to enter the world of smuggling . With each new page, Slađana Nina Perković more and more picturesquely builds a novelistic world that is built on the display of everyday life, only that everyday life, with extremely sharp language and with a negligible dose of dark humor, is moved almost to the limits of absurdity and grotesque. One funeral and sale of a family home and land, these events that we almost automatically perceive as tragic or shocking, in this novel are transformed into the ridiculous that serves us not to ignore tragedy and reality, but to more easily understand the whole picture of the world we are the part itself.

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Vrapci u oluji

Author(s): Ninoslav Mitrović / Language(s): Serbian

The novel “Sparrows in the Storm” is set in eastern Serbia in the 1920s and follows the story of Bogdan Prvulović, a returnee from the Great War, who in post-war Serbia tries to make ends meet and feed his family by doing various jobs and cultivating the land. But, as in every post-war period, this time the situation is controlled by those who took positions during the war and acquired property, through smuggling, bribery and similar activities. Faced with a situation from which he sees no way out and an offer from a former war comrade that he cannot refuse, Bogdan will make a choice that will change his life fundamentally. “Sparrows in the Storm” brings a story as old as the world itself, it is a story about wrong choices, remorse, the inability to return to the old and finally revenge, and one that does not bring calm, but must be carried out.

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Publisher: Imprimatur d.o.o.