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The Inner Side of the Wind: A Romance of Hero and Leander

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The Inner Side of the Wind: A Romance of Hero and Leander
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Milorad Pavić is an iconic Serbian writer whose works intertwine magical realism with hypertextuality, allowing the reader to determine the novel's fabula and influence the plot.
"The Inner Side of the Wind" is shaped like a water clock (klepsydra). It is a page-turner book that can be started reading from either end.
Hero and Leandra are separated by centuries, but they sense or, better said, anticipate each other through the ages. Thin threads stretch between them across the canvas of time that the reader can try to find and tie together.
Leander lives in the time of the Turkish invasions. To discover his fate, he turns to soothsayers who predict two deaths for him: by saber and by fire. These prophecies are the inside and outside of the wind ...
Hero knows that she will die at twelve hours and five minutes. In the meantime, she teaches French to two children, one of whom lives in the future and is invisible in the present, and translates novels, inserting her short stories into them...
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