Kaya, Belgrade and the Good American
By Mirjana Dju
2009
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The novel Kaya, Belgrade and the Good American by Mirjana Đurđević is a vivid picture of a period, ennobled by robust story-telling. The story-teller, who occupies an ambivalent position – one moment an omniscient observer, the next moment an unnamed character in the story – talks ironically and humorously about a carefree world which is not aware of the oncoming cataclysm that will be caused by the outbreak of Nazism in Germany. The novel conjures up the atmosphere of Belgrade before World War II, and the story centers mostly around the small Kalmyk population which settled there together with the Russians who fled in the face of the October Revolution. At its core, there is an auto-ironic portrait of a not-so-popular authoress, who compensates for her want of productivity with a fashionable life in the Yugoslav capital, participating in local scandals and running her own small detective investigation.
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Author
Mirjana Dju
Author · 6 books
Mirjana Đurđević (1956), doktorka tehničkih nauka. Profesorka Visoke građevinsko geodetske škole u Beogradu. Napisala seriju od sedam parodija na kriminalističke romane sa detektivkom Harijetom kao glavnom junakinjom: „Ubistvo u akademiji nauka“, Žagor, 2002, Agora, 2007; „Parking svetog Savatija“, Samizdat, 2003, Agora, 2008; „Deda Rankove riblje teorije“, Čigoja štampa, 2004, Laguna 2010 – nagrađena Ženskim perom za 2004; „Leš u fundusu“, Laguna 2012; „Jacuzzi u liftu“, Čigoja štampa, 2005; „Prvi drugi, treći čovek – srpske legende“, Agora, 2006, 2007; „Čim preživim ovaj roman“, Agora 2008, 2009. Takođe „Čas anatomije na Građevinskom fakultetu“, Viktor, 2001, non-fiction; romane „Treći sektor ili sama žena u tranziciji“, Žagor, 2001, Agora, 2006 i „Aždajin osmeh“, Čigoja štampa, 2004; istorijsku metafikcije „Čuvari svetinje“, Agora, 2007, 2008; „Kaja, Beograd i dobri Amerikanac“, Agora 2009, Laguna 2010, 2011. - regionalna nagrada „Meša Selimović“ za najbolji roman objavljen na prostoru Srbije, Hrvatske, Bosne i Hercegovine i Crne gore u 2009. godini i „Bremasoni“, Laguna 2011, 2012. Živi i piše u Beogradu, Srbija.
