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A most bewitching book - literally!
tageszeitung
The most intricate
romance novel of the season. Berliner
Zeitung
There can be no more
beautiful and virtuosic a hymn to the possibilities of literature.
Nürnberger Nachrichten
...an ingenious maze,
in which time has been superseded and Belgrade's history,
Belgrade's architecture, references to writers like Ivan
Turgenev and literary characters are all interwoven. But
the book's actual declaration of love is for literature.
It is the central character of this fantastic novel - fantastic
in both senses of the word. Deutschlandradio Kultur
A good read for all
those who love to be swallowed up by books and who cry when
a novel ends. annabelle
He has written a novel that skillfully walks along the fine line between reality and fiction. It is a magical-realistic love letter to reading, to become the force of fictional energy. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Intelligent and a pleasure to read.
Radio Berlin Brandenburg
A marvellous "book-in-a-book"
novel. For everyone who loves Italo Calvino's If on a winter's
night a traveller. Neon
... a convincing, luscious,
entertaining novel. One which not only represents an homage
to the universe of narration but is also an implicit a statement
about literature and the competition of the new media: sojourning
in virtual worlds and encountering others there is an adventure
we know from the internet. Goran Petrović
makes this adventure his narrative principle and translates
it into the world of books. With audacity. Which is exactly
how it has to be done - history belongs to the bold. Westdeutscher
Rundfunk
Magically beautiful!
magazin münchen
A
literary tour de force. This novel is simple and complex
at the same time, verging on light fiction but with the
exquisite literary irony and self-irony of high romanticism.
Österreichischer Rundfunk
A must-read!
Mein schönes Zuhause
World class!
kulturnews
Wonderfully enthralling,
easily digestible literature with a whiff of Balkan zaniness.
Berner Zeitung
Goran Petrović
succeeds in transforming magical realism à la Borges
into the form of a great novel and suggests convincingly
that we can approach the deeper meaning of history through
literature. Falter
(...) a romance set against the scenery
of Belgrade and a plea for an endangered cultural achievement
- the ability to read contemplatively. Neue Zürcher
Zeitung online
Goran Petrović's
novel skillfully traverses (...) the narrow ridge between
reality and fiction. It is a magic-realist declaration of
love to reading, to the power and energy of fiction.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Goran Petrović's
novel is a wonderful variation on the interweavement of
past and present, dream and reality, in García Márquez's
style of magical realism but with its very own Balkan magic.
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