Marko Dinić weaves a tapestry of personal and political memory, braiding his own family history into the broader Jewish and Serbian experience of the twentieth century. When occupied Serbia is declared «free of Jews» in 1942, Isak Ras risks what may be his final journey through Belgrade. His mission is to exhume a buried past: the unexplained disappearance of his mother twenty-one years earlier. Could the anarchists Rosa and Milan hold the key? Or the mysterious doppelgangers roaming the city?

Dinić’s masterful novel has been placed in the «tradition of great Yugoslav prose fiction, ranging from Ivo Andrić and Aleksandar Tišma to Dževad Karahasan and Drago Jančar.» (Standard).

*The English title is given for reference only. The book has not been published under this title.

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