Summary
Ivana Sajko: Little Deaths
Little Deaths is a novel about departures, about childhood, about the end of love and about the lost idea of a better place to which it is possible to flee. Each chapter is one long sentence that moves from the past to the present, from the skin of a frightened boy to the suit of an already grown man, from one end of Europe to the other, following the fate of the protagonist who took a train from a coastal city on the Adriatic to Berlin, only to start anew there, perhaps too late. But before he disembarks on the last page, he has to face his past and his own role as a stranger.
With the novel Little Deaths, Ivana Sajko carefully, precisely and succinctly paints a portrait of a time and an intellectual on the border. A man who, traveling to a fictional, better West, is aware that he is there just as much as in the place from which he started, because the time we live in must rebuild all its foundations - moral, ideological, interpersonal...
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