Summary
Vuk Drašković: Via Romana
A moving saga about the split in a man who tries to reconcile the incompatible and realize the love he dreamed of. In Vuk Drašković's novel, symbolically titled Via Romana, the main character, doctor Damjan Čavka, describes almost four centuries. Serbian stumbling, from 1602, through his fate. The great imperial road, remembered as Via Romana, is a witness of centuries of suffering, janissaries, schisms, murders, suicides, beys and subjects, winners and losers, Chetniks, partisans, Ustasha, communists, all kinds of delusions, bloody revenges. , blind worship and rebellion, greed, outlawry, dreams and harsh reality, entanglements and bad endings, our individual and collective dramas.
The basis of the novel is the poignant confession of two janissaries, from the same village, from the same house, but separated by centuries.
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