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Old 04-04-2009, 10:36 AM   #1
DextExexy

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Default Goran Petrovic: The Hand Of Good Fortune
It's hard to say in just a few lines how marvelous and excellent is this novel. I would dare to say this is a book Borges would've loved. ?Why?

Because it is amazing how the author portrays reading as an activity capable of become a universe on itself. I'll try to explain this.

Several stories go around from a very peculiar book called "My Legacy" from an author called Anastas S. Branica. This book has no characters or plot it's just a sort of very detailed and beautifully written descriptions . This makes the book a whole unvierse, a world where only his readers can inhabit and become the real main characters.

The story goes around a lot of readers, going from the author and why he wrote that book, and old woman who helped creating it and who was secretely in love with the author, a communist who did everything in his life just to conquer the love of the old woman, and a young student who is assigned the duty of restoring the descriptions from the book, and who is in love with the assistant of the old woman.

The statement of this work and his magic is that a lot of persons that read the same book can live on it, and that's the way many characters interact in the novel.

A beautiful love story, a sculpted perfect piece of total literature.

P.S. The author is Serbian but I wasn't able to find Serbian flag so I put Montenegro's one.
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