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About the book
A family fable about a powerful Metohija house of stone, from Ottoman times to the scattering of 1999.
Book 06 · novel · 2016
Vreme zlih pastrmki
The Time of Evil Trout
✦ First sentenceIn Serbian, as he wrote it.
„Kamen od kojega je sazidan temelj i obložena kućevna cigla donet je iz nekog ljutog krša, sa neke strane od koje davno nikakvog dobra nije dolazilo i gde se guja kotila, akrep šepurio a ljudi ubijali umesto da jedni drugima nazovu dobar dan.“
Move across the blotter
✦ Reception
„Ne uklapa se u modu ovdašnje tražnje romanopisaca“It does not fit the local fashion in what is asked of novelists.
„Roman je autobiografski, biografski, nacionalno biografski, svevremen, ovo vremen i univerzalan.“The novel is autobiographical, biographical, a national biography, timeless, of this time and universal.
Ratko Vukelić on the novel, for the Dimitrije Tucović Library, Lazarevac, 2017.
One of 170 novels in the running for the NIN Prize in 2016. ↗
Launches
- 6 Jun 2017 · Vuk Karadžić National Library, Kragujevac
The painter Goran Pešić gave the library a painting inspired by the novel.
In the media: Radio Kragujevac
- 17 Mar 2017 · Dimitrije Tucović Library, Lazarevac
With an exhibition by the painter Goran Pešić; Ratko Vukelić spoke about the novel. The hall was full.
In the media: TV GEM
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Edition
Lestve, Kosovska Mitrovica, 2016. In Serbian, in Cyrillic. 153 pages. ISBN 978-86-88917-19-3. With an afterword by Zoran Đorđević, “Zbiranje zavičaja” (Gathering the Homeland).
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Where to get it
From the Stara knjiga bookshop, in Lazarevac and online.
Stara knjiga