Summary
Tatjana Bijelić: Rihtanje rebra
An unforgettable story about the body, fear and freedom - and heroines who feel the burden of history on their shoulders.
The verse novel "Rihtanje rebra" is a succinct account of maturation and female motivations in an unfavorable historical moment. The picturesque but dynamic narrative thread follows the young Ela, who, together with her parents, is forced to find refuge in a rural environment, in the vortex of a still incomprehensible war, where the power dynamics are different from the one she is used to. "Rihtanje rebra" explores the constant youthful need to escape from reality, into a society obsessed with strictures, divisions and restrictions. An open critique of machismo, in the narrowest sense, this is a novel about the female body and the conquest of freedom that is still possible only in the inner world of the heroine.
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