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At the Lucky Hand
aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers
2000
First Published
4.26
Average Rating
327
Number of Pages
At The Lucky Hand is an account of the different love stories that revolve around a very peculiar book: My Legacy, by Anastas Branica. At first glance, this is a book where there is no plot or characters, only descriptions. However, that is what makes it a self-sufficient space, a world that can only be inhabited by its readers, which Anastas has written in order to live, within the book, with his beloved. Through what Petrovic called “simultaneous reading”, it is possible to coincide with other people in the same book, and not only that, but also to live beyond what is simply written. Within this experience of reading-while-reading, participants are able to access a meeting place that is outside of reality. How else can we describe what happens to us when we read with true conviction, when books become life, palpable, manifested, when books become part of our physiology, when love is incarnated in the reading that two strangers perform at the same time, hoping that time will be abolished by the mere fact of fixing their gaze on a page? In short, what the reader of this book will surely experience, along with all the other readers who coincide in the experience, will be a state of joyous stupefaction. Above all else, the book is a love letter to the power of literature.
Avg Rating
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Number of Ratings
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Author

Goran Petrovic
Goran Petrovic
Author · 10 books

One of the most significant and most widely read contemporary Serbian writers. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade University. At the moment, he works as a librarian at the Žiča city library, not too far away from the Žiča Monastery. Awards: the Borislav Pekić Fund Scholarship; the "Prosveta Award"; the "Meša Selimović Award"; the "Charter of Rača", the "Golden Bestseller", "Vital Award"; the "National Library of Serbia"Award; the "Most widely read Book Award" (NIN, 2001); the "October Award of the City of Kraljevo; the "Borislav Stanković Award". Petrović's books have been reprinted several times. His novels have already been translated into Russian, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish. Goran Petrović jedan je od najznačajnijih (i najčitanijih) srpskih pisaca mlađe generacije srpskih savremenih prozaista. Rođen je u Kraljevu 1961. godine. Studirao je jugoslovensku i srpsku književnost na Filološkom fakultetu Beogradskog uni...veziteta. Radio je dugo kao bibliotekar u ogranku gradske biblioteke u Žiči, pedesetak metara od manastira Žiča, a danas je na mestu glavnog urednika časopisa „Povelja“ gradske biblioteke u Kraljevu. Objavio je: knjigu kratke proze Saveti za lakši život (1989), roman Atlas opisan nebom (1993), zbirku pripovedaka Ostrvo i okolne priče (1996), roman Opsada crkve Svetog Spasa (1997), roman Sitničarnica „Kod srećne ruke“ (2000), zbirku pripovedaka Bližnji (2002), zbirku izabrane kratke proze Sve što znam o vremenu (2003) i dramu Skela (2004), zbirku pripovedaka „Razlike“ (2006) i kino-novelu "Ispod tavanice koja se ljuspa" (2010). Knjige su mu štampane u preko četrdeset izdanja. Petrovićevi romani su objavljivani u prevodu na ruski, francuski, italijanski, španski jezik, poljski i bugarski. Prema romanu Opsada crkve Svetog Spasa, a u dramatizaciji i režiji Kokana Mladenovića, u Narodnom pozorištu u Somboru postavljena je istoimena predstava. Goran Petrović je dobitnik književne stipendije Fonda Borislava Pekića, „Prosvetine“ nagrade, nagrade „Meša Selimović“, „Račanske povelje“, „Zlatnog bestselera“, „Vitalove“ nagrade, nagrade Narodne biblioteka Srbije za najčitaniju knjigu, NIN-ove nagrade za 2001. godinu, Oktobarske nagrade grada Kraljeva i nagrade „Borisav Stanković“.

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