Goran Vojnovic: The Fig Tree [2020] paperback ZARTA Mum's away

Mum's away

reaching a peak in the 1970s

as well as the poignancy

Jenny becomes convinced that those she most cares about will not survive

Alan describes an ordinary life in bursts of technicolour

Goran Vojnovic: The Fig Tree [2020] paperback ZARTA Mum's awayThe Fig Tree is a novel composed of the intertwining stories of the family of Jadran, a 30 something who tries to piece together the story of his relatives in order to better understand himself. Because he cannot understand why Anja walked out of their shared life, he tries to understand the suspicious death of his grandfather and the withdrawal of his grandmother into oblivion and dementia. With all his might, Jadran tries to understand the departure