Book of Faces || Longlist German Book Prize 2025

Belgrade 1942: The day occupied Serbia is declared “free of Jews” is the day Isak Ras ventures on what may be his last foray through the city.
He is searching for the remains of his buried past: What happened 21 years ago when Isak’s mother disappeared without a trace? Did the anarchists Rosa and Milan have anything to do with it? Or the mysterious doppelgangers running around the city?

Eight chapters, eight different perspectives result in the solution to a clever puzzle at the end of this great novel
. Marko Dinić has created an impressive text, a history of Serbia and Europe in the twentieth century. His “Book of Faces” is memoir literature in a modern form.

Moderation discussion: Tatjana Vogel

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