Summary
Nađa Petrović: Jellyfish live forever until they are caught
The publishing profession, and with it the editorial profession, achieves its deepest and widest meaning when it discovers (or "just" arrives at) a new, and in fact self-affirming literary voice. Such, authentic, lively, brave, young, and deep down calm... he comes, looks you in the eyes and says: Here I am between dream and reality, joy and pain, insolence and tradition. All me, all me.
This is the voice of Nađa Petrović; original, intimate, romantic and cruel, which they would embrace, and only hers. Soloist, with a hidden and loud chorus that accompanies and supports her: this is the kind of youth that the literary scene desires.
Vladislav Bajac
Vulnerable and strong, playful and disturbing. Nađa Petrović's extraordinary novel begins as a teenage coming-of-age drama, but quickly turns into an exciting intimate confession, fluffy and poetic, yet touching and painful at the same time. It is a story about deep and essential fragility, about the fear of death, but also the fear of life. Intensely told, special and devastatingly emotional, yet immersed in all the insecurities, impermanence and fragility of a young girl's soul. In this contrast, of almost incompatible things, Nađa Petrović builds her extremely special author's world, and her prose throws untouched and unequivocal truth directly in our face, powerfully and without reservation. A truth in which we cannot help but believe, because this truth emerges from every word, thought, look and sigh of the main heroine of the novel. In this novel, the author bravely and uncompromisingly, yet delicately and unobtrusively, exposes her soul, breaks her own being into the tiniest pieces, and she does it without forgiveness, like the characters in her heroine Sara's favorite movie - head through the wall.
Srdan Golubović
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