Summary
Marina Kuveždić: The path she chose
"Behind him he heard horns. They blared louder and louder, but he couldn't move. He didn't get an answer, nor an explanation. The man continued to calmly collect bottles in the park, stuffing them into a black bag. He seemed relaxed, carefree, almost happy. Suddenly, Hrvoje was there. Present. Another man at the window He was trying to get him to move. He was afraid of the water. He said that if he didn't swim, his son had to know how to swim." on my own skin. I rarely see him. He must be right. He would do anything for his princess." following an imaginary line and muttering to herself. She looked at her and imagined how it would be to get lost in her own thoughts and escape from everything like that. Was she ever free in her head?" vital. She really has them, as if she finds them easily, which is certainly a trick, our impression due to the ease of reading.
A talent for the story is evident here, locating and presenting it dynamically, often completely unpredictable, in the 22 stories in this collection. Together with a multitude of heroes, Kuveždić gives "as if by the way" a picture of our time and place, which is looked down upon from above.
This is the right book for the reader who wants a story, ours, contemporary, from the building, from the kitchen, from the elevator, from the cafe, from the road... - Robert Perišić
Marina Kuveždić was born in 1985 in Vukovar. Since 1991, she lived in Zagreb, where she completed her studies in English and pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy in 2009. He lives in Velika Gorica and works in Zagreb.
So far, a dozen of her short stories have been published as part of various literary contests (I'm telling you a story - City Library Samobor, Ranko Marinković, Sedmica i Kritična masa, Arteist, Matica Hrvatska) and she won several awards, among others, the prize at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Student Club's contest for the best short story, What She Wanted, as well as the third prize in the 2017 Ranko Marinković Večernji list short story contest for the story Do you know who I am?
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