Summary
Namik Kabil: Isijavanje (2nd edition)
Coming from Sweden to his native Trebinje to sell the house where he grew up, Besim opens an album of pictures, memories and living wounds.
Scene after scene memories of fatal love, the beginning of war, friendships and partings, defeats and deaths line up. Namik Kabil reveals to us the personal story of an emigrant who wants to uproot himself, uproot his heart and mind from the Balkan microworld of childhood and suffering in order to live more peacefully in the crowded paradise of Scandinavia. The writer brings to light the rich voices of all those who are part of Trebinje, part of its turbulent history and its delicate sensitivity. The multiplicity of destinies takes the reader's breath away and opens the eyes: from a long-forbidden love that spoke Ekavian and sank into darkness for a brother who died in the war, to a steadfast and determined mother who could dive underwater longer than stay in Sarajevo and still died in emigration...
The torments of alienation and exile are wrapped in a lyrical knot, but in the rich language of this novel, all unquenchable devotion to the homeland lives on. Because "need is an endemic disease, a cancer of the soul from which one does not die, one lives with the diagnosis".
Vladislava Gordić Petković
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