Summary
Selvedin Avdić: Autobusne notes
There are books that seem to have been dreamed of before. They happen when an experience, or a story in it, matches our important memories. So, in my case, the book Bus notes by Selvedin Avdić is like that. The writer writes down everyday situations, parts of conversations, pictures seen on his travels between Zenica and Sarajevo.
And although this journey is between two cities, the book is primarily marked by Zenica. Avdić's tone has a local color, a rough male voice that softens the sharp edges of the world. There is something here of the hoarse narrator's voice from Raymond Carver's prose.
And when he describes dark minor pictures, Avdić always manages to emerge from them in a bright tone.
- Semezdin Mehmedinović
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