In the Ditch (U jarku)

When the narrator’s mother barges in, interrupting her daughter’s crime series binge, the reader steps into a world where the absurd and the everyday collide. Aunt Stana’s sudden death—choking on a piece of chicken—derails plans to sell the family home, setting off a chain of chaotic events. The novel brims with failed suicide attempts, bizarre police visits, and characters who either build their own monuments before they die or embark on smuggling careers.

With razor-sharp language and dark humor, Slađana Nina Perković turns even life’s most tragic moments into something strangely comic, revealing the unsettling yet familiar absurdity of the world around us.

Genre: Fiction
Category: Novel
Publisher: Imprimatur
Year: 2020
Pages: 204
ISBN: 978-99976-776-8-6
English sample translation available

Rights sold to:
France (Zulma)
Italy (Voland editore)
Bulgaria (Persey)
USA (Sandorf Passage)
Germany (ETA Verlag)
Greece (Entypois)

Awards
Special mention from the Jury of The European Union Prize for Literature

Previous titles: Cooking

Rights
Imprimatur.izdavastvo@gmail.com
Boris Maksimović
www.imprimatur.ba
www.imprimatur-izdavastvo.rs