Published in 2005 in East Sarajevo, this novel tells a deeply emotional and powerful story of a father who shares an intense, heartfelt account with his younger son about his older brother. The narrative flows from the father’s lips - honest, raw, and filled with anxiety - as he tries to make sense of the pain and trauma left by war.
The older son, wounded on the battlefield and left disabled, is undergoing treatment, while the father wrestles with fears about his son's future -how he will be accepted, how his life will unfold. At its core, the novel captures the brutal reality of war, where fathers are forced to bury their sons. Serbs, Croats, and Bosniak Muslims alike are drawn into a senseless conflict, left each night to face the heavy, suffocating, and inescapable Bosnian darkness that the civilwar has cast over them all.
