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Collective Trauma
Confessional
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Croatian
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Family
Fiction
Illness
Language_English
Nikola Petkovic
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Trauma
War
Yugoslavia
Product details
- ISBN 9781628971736
- Weight: 204g
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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How to Tie Your Shoes is a confessional narrative that deals
with the relationship between a father and son—more
precisely it narrates this relationship’s absence into existence.
The novel begins when the narrator learns that his father is
terminally ill and decides to return home to arrange for his
medical care. Mixing the most private fragments of their
familial saga with the turbulent recent history of post-Yu-
goslav transition, the book connects seemingly divid-
ed fields of private and public and suggests a strong link
between the two facets of trauma: individual and collective.
Nikola Petković (1962) is a Croatian writer, literary critic, translator, screenwriter, and scholar.
