Under the crumbling ceiling
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Under the crumbling ceiling
9.99 €
Goran Petrović is an iconic Serbian writer whose work is imbued with magical realism. His novels read like fairy tales.
A shoemaker named Loza Jovanović had a dream. For it, he bought a whole train car of decommissioned army boots for his right foot at an auction. And a month later, at another auction, for his left foot. This is how the story of the Hotel Yugoslavia began. Stories of people will fly under the ceiling of the concert and dance hall with a plaster painting of the Universe. Rudi Prohaska rents the hall and starts showing films there. His parrot, named Democracy, will not say a word. The government of the new country will nationalize the cinema, and the parrot will be inherited by the old ticket collector. Democracy will not say a word. Only after one significant screening, which will gather thirty people, Democracy will finally speak.
If you liked the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Umberto Eco, Theodor Hoffmann and Milorad Pavic, then this book by Goran Petrovic is for you.
A shoemaker named Loza Jovanović had a dream. For it, he bought a whole train car of decommissioned army boots for his right foot at an auction. And a month later, at another auction, for his left foot. This is how the story of the Hotel Yugoslavia began. Stories of people will fly under the ceiling of the concert and dance hall with a plaster painting of the Universe. Rudi Prohaska rents the hall and starts showing films there. His parrot, named Democracy, will not say a word. The government of the new country will nationalize the cinema, and the parrot will be inherited by the old ticket collector. Democracy will not say a word. Only after one significant screening, which will gather thirty people, Democracy will finally speak.
If you liked the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Umberto Eco, Theodor Hoffmann and Milorad Pavic, then this book by Goran Petrovic is for you.
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