It's June in 1970s Montenegro; school's just let out and Catherine's head is full of Boney M lyrics and playing 'cops and robbers' with her summer crush. Then tragedy rips the heart from her little family and Catherine's life takes on a new trajectory.
Brilliantly written by Serbian visionary Branimir Scepanovic, this novel tells the story of one man’s desperate attempt to return to his home country of Montenegro while being pursued by a group of strangers aiming to kill him. This anguishing journey is both metaphysical and symbolic, representing the relationships that exist between the individual and the collective and between perpetrators and victims. Fast-paced and gripping, this book explores the man’s innate desire to keep at least one of his rights: the right to die by his own hand. Brillantemente escrita por el visionario serbio Brani... continue
The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Montenegrin Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrovic-Njegos. Njegos wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna. It is a modern epic written in verse as a play, thus combining three of the major modes of literary expression. Set in 18th-century Montenegro, the poem deals with attempts of Njegos's ancestor Danilo to regulate relations among the region's warring tribes. Written as a serie... continue