In Belgrade, a new millennium has just begun. However, the terrible consequences of the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia still overshadow people’s lives. Most struggle with the anguished question: should we stay or should we leave?
Marko Kapetanović, a rather unsuccessful writer, visits his father in Austria, the mysterious Milijan, who had abandoned his son several years earlier. Marija, Marko’s partner, an artist of everyday life, prefers to let herself be carried along by the flow of things. Marija’s friend Kristina, an immigrant in the USA, is trying to chart a new course. By chance, all three will find themselves in Vienna at the same time. This crossing of paths proves to be crucial.
Dragan Velikić, a literary master at the crossroads of Central Europe and the Balkans, wonderfully tells the story of a generation that experienced the disintegration of a country and is called upon to readjust itself in the world. Families and societies, loves and losses, traumas and destinies against the backdrop of the upheavals of an entire era. Bonavia belongs among the most important European novels of recent years.
