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U zbirci od šesnaest priča, Ivana Bodrožić donosi suptilnu, snažnu i nenametljivu prozu koja ispod površine svakodnevice otkriva složenost ženskog iskustva. Njene priče nastaju iz sitnih, često neprimetnih trenutaka — iz kuhinjskih mirisa, usputnih razgovora, večernjih šetnji, porodičnih situacija i društvenih očekivanja koja oblikuju svakodnevni život.

Autorka polazi od ideje da je pisanje fikcija, ali da istina koju ono nosi ne može biti izmišljena. Kada se udalji od autentičnosti, rečenice gube snagu, dok se povratkom stvarnom iskustvu tekst ponovo puni životom. Upravo ta napetost između fikcije i istine oblikuje priče koje se bave temama identiteta, ljubavi, majčinstva, društvenih pritisaka i tihe, često nevidljive borbe za sopstveni glas.

U ovim pričama nema velikih zapleta, već niz suptilnih trenutaka u kojima se otkrivaju poniženja, strahovi, frustracije, ali i prkos, solidarnost i snaga. Bodrožić piše o svakodnevici koju književnost često zaobilazi, dajući glas iskustvima koja su prepoznatljiva, intimna i univerzalna.

Fikcija je knjiga koja se ne čita u jednom dahu, već polako, u kratkim predasima, ostavljajući prostor za razmišljanje i prepoznavanje. To je proza koja pokazuje kako se upravo iz svakodnevnih, tihih trenutaka rađa književnost — i kako žensko iskustvo, u svoj svojoj složenosti, postaje njena snažna i autentična osnova.

The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers. In this city without a name, fences in schoolyards separate the children of Serbs from those of Croats, and city leaders still fight to free themselves from violent crimes they committed or permitted during the war a generation ago. Now, it is left to a new generation the children, now grown up, to extricate themselves from this tragic place, innocents who are nonetheless connected in different ways to the crimes of the past.
Nora is a journalist assigned to do a puff piece on the perpetrator of a crime of passion a Croatian high school teacher who fell in love with one of her students, a Serb, and is now in prison for having murdered her husband. But Nora herself is the daughter of a man who was murdered years earlier under mysterious circumstances.

Maestralno koristeći okvire i uzuse krimi-žanra i noir atmosferu, mračnu, tajanstvenu, senovitu i fatalističku, Ivana Bodrožić nas svojim drugim romanom Rupa vodi u samo srce tame, koje više nije u egzotičnim šumama Konga, već svugde oko nas, preobraženo u zverski kapitalizam periferije koji se hrani ljudskim životima i u kojem rat nikada ne prestaje.

Tačno deset godina nakon već čuvenog romana Hotel Zagorje, u kom je ispričala potresnu priču o transgeneracijskoj ratnoj traumi i četiri godine posle kriminalističkog romana Rupa, čija radnja je smeštena u neimenovani grad na Dunavu tokom divlje tranzicije, hrvatska spisateljica Ivana Bodrožić napisala je novi roman pod naslovom Sinovi, kćeri, kojim je uspela da prevaziđe svoje prethodne knjige po stilu, formi i snazi pripovedanja, a da opet ostane svoja – zagledana u pitanje slobode u postkonfliktnim društvima, kakva su nastala na tlu nekadašnje Jugoslavije.

The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Balkan war.
HOTEL TITO is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodrozic was born in the Croatian town of Vukovar, just across the Danube from Serbia. In the fall of 1991, Vukovar was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army for eighty-seven days. When the army broke the siege, people came up out of the basements where they'd been sheltering from bombardment; women and children were allowed out of the besieged city, but the army bused 400 men from the hospital to a farm on the outskirts where soldiers and Serbian paramilitaries massacred them. Bodro ic's father was among those taken and murdered.

In HOTEL TITO, after fleeing the war zone their town has become, the mother and two children are housed along with other displaced persons at a former communist school in the village of Kumrovec (the birthplace of Josip Tito). For years they share a single room just large enough for their three beds, waiting to hear whether the narrator's father survived and when they'll be granted an apartment of their own. In the meantime life goes on for the teenage protagonist, first loves bloom and burn quickly, new friendships are acquired and lost, new truths emerge, and new emotions. But she never loses her shy, insightful voice, nor her self-deprecating sense of humor. HOTEL TITO is a sensitive and forthright coming of age novel in a time of atrocity and loss.