Samardžić writes about the war, his bleak and strong fragments can be placed among the best work written on the subject. The sharp sentences leave scars not just on the paper, but also on/in the reader.
Jagna Pogačnik | Jutarnji list
I love books in which you can feel the author’s stylistic dexterity and attention to sentence formation. This will remain one of the more important books in my mental library, (…)
Zoran Ferić | Nacional
…we are talking about the author who has demonstrated, already in his earlier works, to be a master of prose .
Ahmed Burić | Dani
Forest Spirit is a chronicle of growing up on the hard concrete of Belgrade and maturing in the heat of the Siege of Sarajevo.
Selvedin Avdić | Start
This is a novel that, with the force of a Cossack march. won over the audience and literary critics (…) it reads in one deep breath, but you feel sorry for having read it too quickly when you come to the last sentence (…).
Faruk Šehić | Quorum