Summary
Gordana Crnković: Easy silences
*The book is underlined with a ballpoint pen.
The novel Easy silences talks about Vida, who is more inclined to think than to act, but also about the independent women of her family, from the time before the Second World War, during its duration and the post-war period until the present day. The strength of Marica, atypically elegant for that era and island environment and reputed to be particularly beautiful, is a discreet and self-deprecating nature. She quietly but successfully survived the camp days and later a series of traumatic abortions. Monika is devoted to her beliefs and action and gazed at the world, at humanity, with whom she is in collusion even when she is staring at a plate of weak soup or at the ripples of the sea at the bottom of the bay. Franka is loyal to the initiative, self-confident and determined. Marta is relaxed and gentle. Lena is self-aware, but Vida cannot make out the face of her future. And Vida is like a spider that weaves in its threads a multitude of characters from its own and familiar past and present. They bring to life the imagination of the narrator of this novel's open and fractured structure, which touches on many things - from a series of intimate and private relationships to important historical events and existential realizations.
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