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Divine Child by Tatjana Gromaca (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherObrt Za Nakladnistvo, Posrednistvo I Trgovinu Sandorf

ISBN-109533513233

ISBN-139789533513232

eBay Product ID (ePID)15050406861

Product Key Features

Book TitleDivine Child

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicPsychological, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorTatjana Gromaca

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-934653

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"In Gromaca's trenchant and philosophical English-language debut, a woman battles with her mental health while her daughter, the narrator, offers a disquisition on the casualties of a time after the Balkan Wars, when "all reality and all truth became different." ...Redolent of Havel's The Power of the Powerless , Gromaca's work takes on the hatred that was manufactured, mythologized, and manipulated to feed, justify, and rationalize violence. Quick but substantial, this packs a powerful punch." -- Publishers Weekly, "The main subject of the novel is not Mother's mental illness, but the relationship between the individual who is sick and the society which is even sicker. It is about war, which eats any person's humanity like a cancer. To write about a mother is hard, and to write about war is even harder. Tatjana Gromaca has the courage and skills to make the story powerful and convincing." --Slavenka Drakulic, Author of Cafe Europa Revisited and S.: A Novel about the Balkans, "This packs a powerful punch." -- Publishers Weekly "From childhood trauma, obsessive compulsive behavior, and gender politics, to the pharmaceutical industry and the pageantry of the postwar "peace" economy, Divine Child moves between the overt violence of war and the often-unexamined violence of everyday transgressions."--Ena Selimovic, Reading in Translation

Dewey Decimal891.83

SynopsisIn the early 1990s, as Yugoslavia begins to crumble, so too does a woman, known only as Mother. Ostracized by her Croatian neighbors because of her Serbian background, the bright cheer Mother brought to her role as a wife and mother is darkened by the onset of mental illness that devours an entire family. Seen through the acerbic and wry perspective of Mother's eldest daughter, Divine Child paints a picture of the forces that batter an individual into shape in a time of economic crisis and rabid nationalism. This unforgettable survival narrative won the 2013 Jutarnji list Award for Novel of the Year in Croatia.

LC Classification NumberPG1619.17.R58D58