Pupčana vrpca

Cosmopolitan, romantic, bohemian Paris is the trigger for the novel's main heroine to delve into her family's history, her upbringing and deeply problematic relationship with her mother and recently deceased father. The omniscient narrator who remembers everything, including her birth, delves deeply into the trauma of growing up in a dysfunctional family in a small, once industrial town on the banks of several rivers. Dissolving and chewing over family tragedies and happiness, poverty, wars, alcoholism, women who obey their husbands, the narrator not only exposes her childhood and youth to us, but above all creates a memorable protagonist. She is a girl who can realize her self only if she faces all the repressed feelings, unspoken longings, desires and failures of her ancestors, with all the preserved and unspoken baggage of her family heritage. We follow her as she changes from a tiny baby and little girl to a teenager and a young, self-confident woman, experiencing arguments and love, conflicts with her parents and drinking sessions with her colleagues, sexual adventures, painful departures, harsh words and rare moments of intimacy.