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By Dino Bauk, translated by Tinothy Pogačar
ISBN: 978-1-912545-285
A roofless library in the middle of war-torn Bosnia, staffed by a mysterious woman who leads a young solider through hidden doorways. A businessman hiding from an angry mob of unpaid workers in a suitcase and a lonely divorcé who picks up a mysterious hitch-hiker, only to be lured by her into an unfamiliar forest. The End. And Again offers a beguiling, imaginative reworking of the history of the independence of Slovenia and the break-up of Yugoslavia through the eyes of its four main characters – like the line-up of a pop group – Peter, Goran, Denis and Mary. Their memories of the years when their interests revolved more around music and love than around the turbulent political situation that derailed their lives intersect with those of Denis, the only one of them to be enlisted and sent into battle. A lack of any meaningful resolution to their mutual story haunts them all and forces them to search for a different end(ing). (And) Again.”Bauk was a young man at the time of the Balkan wars and is debut novels captures brilliantly the fractured nature of those times thanks to both the conflict and the flux that followed the collapse of European communism.”
“Bauk was a young man at the time of the Balkan wars and is debut novels captures brilliantly the fractured nature of those times thanks to both the conflict and the flux that followed the collapse of European communism.”
Charlie Connelly, The New European
