Summary
Magdalena Blažević: Harvest Season
After a short-lived love affair with a glassblower, photographer Una, under the pretext of preparing an exhibition, goes to a long-abandoned village, to her parents' house, to get away from unbearable everyday life. With the eye of his analog camera, inherited from his mother Ida, he records his inner feelings with external images. She talks to her lover about her return, her unspeakable longing, her wanderings through the countryside and the nearby small town, and by photographing the remnants of bad times she hints at the decades-old love story of her mother, who, although married, fell in love with another craftsman and, like Una, was ready to start a new life today.
Harvest season by Magdalena Blažević is a dreamy novel about timeless love, full of fine eroticism and unrepeatable love scenes behind which she hides a story about the decay of cities, the poetics of abandoned spaces and the impossibility of overcoming trauma. Harvest season will delight readers with sensuality and unusual metaphors, as well as the poetic power recognizable by Magdalena Blažević's narrative voice.
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