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Dark Mother Earth

By: Kristian Novak, Ellen Elias-Bursac - translator
Narrated by: Will Damron
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An amnesiac writer’s life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point in this stunning English-language debut from an award-winning Croatian author.

As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he’s written two well-received books. It’s his third that is as big a failure as his private life. Unable to confine his fabrications to fiction, he’s been abandoned by his girlfriend over his lies. But all Matija has is invention. Especially when it comes to his childhood and the death of his father. Whatever happened to Matija as a young boy, he can’t remember. He feels frightened, angry, and responsible....

Now, after years of burying and reinventing his past, Matija must confront it. Longing for connection, he might even win back the love of his life. But discovering the profound fears he has suppressed has its risks. Finally seeing the real world he emerged from could upend it all over again.

©2013 Kristian Novak (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2019 by Ellen Elias-Bursac.
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Brilliantly written book

Book is brilliantly written. Story is dark and innocent also, in the same time.
Left me with stomach pain.

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Izvrsna i brutalna

Dugo nisam pročitao ovako dobru, ali i tešku knjigu. Kristian Novak je uspio napisati roman koji se ne zaboravlja.

Knjiga je podijeljena u pet dijelova. U proslovu saznajemo da se u Međimurju 1991. dogodila serija od 8 samoubojstava, a nitko ne zna točan razlog zašto se to dogodilo. Postoje razne teorije, ali nimalo ne pomažu. Nakon toga polako otkrivamo mračne tajne tog malog mjesta.

Kroz knjigu se zanimljivo postavljaju mnogobrojni likovi. Glavni lik Matija Dolenčec pokreće radnju i brzo me uvukao u knjigu, tako da sam s velikim interesom čitao svaku sljedeću stranicu iako je to lakoća čitanja postupno padala, a tmurnost se povećavala.

Ovo je iznimno teška knjiga. Ja sam očekivao malo mračniji krimić. Ovo je sto puta brutalnije. Novak govori o tabuima i od njih ne bježi nego ulazi u sve njezine detalje. Neki dijelovi knjige su bili toliko grozni da sam imao osjećaj kao da mi se trbuh okreće.

Usprkos tom negativnom osjećaju u svojoj utrobi, aplaudiram što je autor odlučio o tome progovoriti. Demistificirao je malo mjesto, sve se počelo otkrivati i otelo se kontroli. Pokazano je koliko je nezdravo kad se skupinu prisiljava da se uklopi unutar nametnuh društvenih očekivanja. Vidi se koliko ima uništenih ljudi jer se boje djelovati da netko drugi nešto ne pomisli.

Nažalost, mnoge stvari bi se mogle prislikati u našu sadašnjost bez većih problem, pa čak i na neku drugu lokaciju. Moram priznati da je Međimurje izvrsno poslužilo za priču jer je dalo još jači utisak atmosferi. Mislim da ukoliko bi ova knjiga bila djelo nekog američkog ili skandinavskog autora, ovo bi bio novi svjetski hit.

U velikom dijelu razgovora koristi se kajkavsi narječje. Kao osobi koji nije iz tog područja moram priznat da nije bilo baš teško shvatiti što se govori. Na kraju knjige se nalazi i rječnik koji objašnjava mnoge pojmove (iako meni osobno nije bio od neke pomoći). Ukoliko vam ipak smeta kajkavski, ukoliko znate engleski preporučujem vam audio knjigu na engleskom. Specifičnosti kajkavskog se izgube, vokabular je lagan, samo čitač malo teže izgovara hrvatska imena.

Na kraju želim preporučiti ovu knjigu svima koji imaju želudac za izvrsnu, ali i brutalnu priču koja će vas ostaviti bez daha. Samo se nadam da će Ciganin, al najljepši biti ovako kvalitetan, ali ipak malo lakši.

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