A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia head towards a lost brother and a collision with the lies they’ve told themselves about where they’re from. Sara hasn't seen or heard from Lejla in years. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can't say no. What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla's brother who disappeared towards the end of the Bosnian War. Presumed dead by everyone else, only Lejla and Sara believed Armin was still alive. Confronted with the limits of memory, Sara is forced to reconsider the things she thought she understood as a girl: the best friend she loved, the first experiences they shared, but also the social and religious lines that separated them, that brought them such different lives. In Catch the Rabbit, Lana Bastašic tells the story of how we place the ones we love on pedestals, and then wait for them to fall off, how loss marks us indelibly, and how the traumas of war echo down the years.
Author
Lana Bastašić rođena je u Zagrebu, tadašnjoj SFRJ, 1986. godine. Završila je studije anglistike i komunikologije u Banjoj Luci, i odbranila master rad iz Studija kulture na FPN u Beogradu. Objavila je dvije zbirke kratkih priča: Trajni pigmenti (SKC Kragujevac, 2010, konkurs edicije Prvenac) i Vatrometi (Čekić, Beograd, 2011). Samostalno je objavila knjigu priča za djecu, Nastja crta sunce (Banja Luka, 2015, ilustracije Sandre Dukić). Godine 2014. osvojila je prvu nagradu za neobjavljenu zbirku poezije na Danima poezije u Zaječaru i objavila Naivni triptih o Bosni i umiranju. Njen prvi roman, Uhvati zeca (Kontrast, Beograd 2018), dobitnik je Evropske nagrade za književnost 2020. godine. Roman je bio uvršten u najuži izbor za NIN-ovu nagradu i nagradu Biljana Jovanović. Preveden je na španski, italijanski, katalonski i mađarski, a u pripremi su i prevodi na engleski, njemački, francuski, ruski, turski, makedonski, albanski, slovenački i bugarski jezik. Dobila je nekoliko priznanja za kratke priče: prvu nagradu za priču na konkursu Ulaznica (Zrenjanin, 2010), specijalnu nagradu na konkursu Karver: Odakle zovem (Podgorica, 2010), te prvu nagradu na konkursu Zija Dizdarević (za 2010. i 2011. godinu). Dobitnica je nagrade za poeziju Targa Centro UNESCO u Trstu, 2013. godine i nagrade za najbolju neobjavljenu dramu u sklopu natječaja Udruženja Fercera i Kamernog teatra 55 u Sarajevu, 2013. Osnovala je školu književnosti Escola Bloom u Barseloni, gdje je uređivala književni časopis Carn de cap. Živi u Beogradu.
