In this new novel, combining the familiar narrative procedure with a new, more intricate set of motives, Ivana Bodrožić tackles the issues addressed in her previous works, issues of Other and otherness, identity and gender, pain and guilt, injustice and violence. We gained so much with her new novel: great literature enforced by the justified social engagement, far from the fashionable activism devoided of substance. We also gained one of the most tender and wrenching love stories in the contemporary Croatian Literature.
Vanja Kulaš | Moderna vremena
At the forbidden places, places we avoid, Ivana’s writing only begins and goes all the way to the most secret, most intimate corners, to the locked core of all things and does so with extraordinary ease and gravitas. Epic by proportions, lyrical, poetic, and polemical by style, Sons, Daughters is a novel about us, daughters and sons, a novel which will be read, written about, and discussed for a long time.
Olja Savičević Ivančević | Author
However, this novel does not speak solely of the transgenerational trauma and transgender issues; Ivana Bodrožić unlocks a subject which is yet to be raised in the Croatian literature, which is now overcast with taboo or stigma to say the least; we have yet to write courageously and openly of female violence, of the violence of the mothers towards their children, one that exists along with the male one, of how women perpetuate the force of malice and pain regardless of men, behind which stand their own traumas and issues. This novel also speaks up about what it means to be a woman in a man’s world, created by equal forces of both genders.
Tanja Tolić | Najbolje knjige