![]() The writing itself is amazing (with the English translation done by the author herself) a book with hardly a wasted word makes quite an intense read. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of the last books I read in 2020 and also one of the best. In Catch the Rabbit, Lana Bastašic tells the story of how we place the ones we love on pedestals, and then wait for them to fall off, how loss marks us indelibly, and how the traumas of war echo down the years. Presumed dead by everyone else, only Lejla and Sara believed Armin was still alive.Ĭonfronted with the limits of memory, Sara is forced to reconsider the things she thought she understood as a girl: the best friend she loved, the first experiences they shared, but also the social and religious lines that separated them, that brought them such different lives. What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla's brother who disappeared towards the end of the Bosnian War. But when Lejla calls and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can't say no. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. ![]() Sara hasn't seen or heard from Lejla in years. **Winner of the European Prize for Literature 2020**Ī moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia head towards a lost brother and a collision with the lies they’ve told themselves about where they’re from. ![]()
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