Catch the Rabbit

Lejla and Sara. They were once best friends. Sara moved to Dublin to continue with her studies and settled there. Now, after 12 years without contact, Lejla and Sara go on a road trip from Bosnia to Vienna, seeking Lejla's missing brother, Armin. This journey eventually becomes an exploration of lost friendship, shared memories, and their connection to their home country, Bosnia.

Excerpt from the Book:

Even now, within this text, I can almost feel her fidget. If she could, she would sneak between two sentences like a moth between two slats of a venetian blind, and would finish my story off from the inside. She would change into the sparkly rags she always liked, lengthen her legs, enhance her breasts, add some waves to her hair.

Details:

• author: Lana Bastašić
  
• full title: Catch the Rabbit
  
• genre: literary fiction
  
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
• topics: #roadtrip, #identity, #memories
  
• publisher: Picador
  
• publish date: May 27, 2021
• pages: 272
  

Literary Awards:

•  Winner of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙

About the Author:  

Lana Bastašić is a Yugoslav-born writer who lives and works in Belgrade. She has published two collections of short stories and one of poetry. Catch the Rabbit, her first novel, was published in 2018 in Belgrade and was shortlisted for the NIN Award. Her short stories have been included in major regional anthologies and have won numerous awards throughout the former Yugoslavia. She was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature for Catch the Rabbit in 2020.