Summary
Darko Tuševljaković: Jaz
From the winner of the Nino Prize European Union Prize for Literature During a summer vacation in Corfu, retired captain Bogdan and his wife Radica try to escape from the unspoken burden that has plagued them for years. In the company of another married couple, shocking episodes from the past will surface that introduce us to the vortex of their emotional cracks, the source of which is the conflict with their son Damir. In the second part of the novel, we return to Damir's youth, in Kragujevac in the nineties, where his friendship with the charismatic and enigmatic David grows into an experience that will shape his life forever. In this novel, Tuševljaković's storytelling talent combined elements of family drama, social mosaic from our recent past and psychological maturation. "Ten years later, it is clear that Jaz was a turning point in Darko Tuševljaković's work and a slight departure from his earlier prose. At the same time, this novel is also a nodal point of his writing poetics, a place where his dominant themes meet and from which emerge ideas that were concretized in the later stories and novels Jägermeister, Sublimeness and Karota. In short, Jaz is a work of recapitulation and anticipation." - Dragan Babić
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