Summary
Ivana Sajko: The Last Day of Peace
A husband and wife take refuge in the face of impending danger, with only a couple of suitcases and a dog, to a property in the middle of nowhere, to the house of friends who have long since fled to safety, eagerly awaiting news from their just-grown-up son, who with a group of friends decided to flee before mobilization. In an atmosphere of fear, without real news, surrounded by mistrust and muted signs of intolerance, the heroes try to preserve their peace of mind. But as the day passes, the news becomes more sketchy, the signs of violence more clear, and the paranoia grows. Neither we nor they know what is imagination and what is reality. Condemned to each other with their anxieties, weaknesses, worries and unspoken fear of not being able to protect themselves, they are everyone who thinks about this moment in which there is no room for optimism.
The Last Day of Peace Ivana Sajko precisely and accurately goes into all the fears of modern man, into the anxious state in which the man of the West has fallen, in the age of pandemics, wars, climate crisis, instability, fake news and unverified source. Zadnji dan mira is a novel about our time now, about the moment when we expect the end of the world. But perhaps there is still hope, because some young people still do not want to agree to the games of the powerful and decide to run away and switch off outside the range of the signal.
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