Cimetna pisma, dijamantna stvorenja: A Love Story in Post-Apocalyptic Times

"Cimetna pisma, dijamantna stvorenja" is Faruk Šehić's ambitious, technically accomplished novel that uses a fragmented, non-linear structure to render a fractured reality through memory and association. The review admires its craft and its personification of war as a predatory character, while reading this as a sign the author cannot free himself from the burden of the past. It faults commonplace observations that undercut the book's philosophical ambition and wishes he would move beyond war narratives.

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