The story of Ekaterini is the story of one woman who lives through the twentieth century and three major wars. Just as there is no such thing as a ‘normal life’, so we can understand that one individual story can be the story of a country, of an epoch. The heroine of ‘Ekaterini’ is born in the Balkans, and her story is one of human survival. This is history seen from a woman’s point of view, including stories from the ordinary lives of other women living through turbulent historical events. With her own brand of humour, Knezevic wants to parody the traditional biography by demystifying the everyday events in one ’ordinary life’ and let the female narrator tell her side of the story.
