The more you read this book, the more the words are transformed into images from a beautifully eerie film by a late Nouvelle Vague director, a Chabrol or a Truffaut, with an aged Michel Piccoli or a Jeanne Moreau in the leading roles. The scenery is indeed film-ready, although we are not on the Côte d’Azur or in Paris, but in Zagreb and on the Croatian Adriatic.
Sabine Berking
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Throughout the carefully arranged chapters, where the past and the present take turns with nostalgic memory and surgical analytical approach, quantity finds its reason in ambition to fixate the values of a generation and an era.
Zdravko Zima
A novel about growing up (…) a novel about love and its demons (…) a novel about sex, the desire that fulfils and consumes us. A novel of transience, of time that shapes the present and changes the past. A novel of old age and frailty. A novel of Zagreb from the mid-20th century until today. This novel also has its seaside story, where Goli otok, Zrće and Vir get a completely new color.
Moderna vremena
