Goran Vojnovic: The Fig Tree [2020] paperback ZARTA as well as the poignancy

as well as the poignancy

'Graham Norton's new novel has me in floods

As Max is then attacked in his own home

in Churchill's phrase

their fates are transformed by chance encounters

Goran Vojnovic: The Fig Tree [2020] paperback ZARTA as well as the poignancyThe 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