Catherine the Great and the Small - Brossura

Olja Knezevic

 
9781908236401: Catherine the Great and the Small

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Catharine's tragectory in life is accompanied by failures in love, family traumas and an incredible romance with handsome Sinisa. The novel takes us through turbulent times in the Balkan region, from the eighties to the present day, portraying growing up in the twilight of communism, and giving intimate insights into all that happened to the region after that.

Carefully crafted characters and masterful, dynamic storytelling place Catherine the Great and the Small in the company of the very best of novels , which speak about the reality of their geographic setting and are remembered for their convincing, strong, maladjusted characters. Catherine is certainly one of them: a powerful female voice seeking her place within her family, among friends, in the cities she lives in, and constructing her unique identity as a daughter, granddaughter, friend, mistress, wife and a mother.

'The splendid language of this novel is skilfully and vividly translated, and the narrative is compelling. What is also striking is the portrayal of the characters with all their flaws and foibles (and who gain our sympathy perhaps particularly because of them). This inclusiveness of vision towards both characters and places – without judgement, rejecting nothing – is a special quality. It is the viewpoint of our greatest organ of perception, the heart, a territory that Olja Knežević knows well and has made her own.' Morelle Smith, Scottish Review

'This is not a they lived happily ever after novel, not least because they lived happily ever after all too often does not happen in the real world. Catherine struggles, she falls, she fails, she picks herself up, she carries on, for herself and those she loves, and, somehow, she does not get the perfect situation but makes an accommodation with those around her, keeps her head help up high and marches on. We can only wish her well.' The Modern Novel

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Informazioni sull?autore

Olya Knezevic was born and raised in Montenegro, went to school in California and received her degree in English language and literature from the University of Belgrade in Serbia. She also has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, London, where was awarded an Overall Prize for the best MA Creative Writing dissertation of the year 2008. That dissertation grew into the novel Milena & Other Social Reforms, which ended up being published first in Montenegro, then in Croatia. Knezevic has been awarded the V.B.Z. Award for the Best Unpublished Novel in 2019 for her work Katarina, Velika i Mala (Catherine, the Great and the Small). She currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

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