Placebo: The Beauty and Horror of Lies
ABOUT
THE BOOK
A satirical and grotesque novel: Placebo: The Beauty and Horror of Lies is one of the most successful novels written by Sead Mahmutefendić. It is a novel about the character of the one Gojko R., whose meta-fiction and pseudo reality attract readers with its rhythm, dynamics and refined environment. Constrained with his own frustrations and feelings of solitude and rebellious slavery Gojko R. finds a refuge in fantastic and surreal stories and monologues about his invented successes and triumphs, re-shaping the vision of reality which sharpens up the picture of his life and character. The message of the novel is: ‘Isn’t the laugh, multidimensional and vociferous one of the anthropological panaceas for expensive enjoyments and of the ways of survival.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Marina
Cotic
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Marija
Vujica
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
This is a satirical novel written by one of the most controversial Bosnian writers at the beginning of the 21st Century.