The Writing Box, a novel written in 1999, translated so far into several languages, appears now in English e-book for the first time. On the one hand, this is a love story between a French girl and a Serbian student. On the other, this is an ancient story, with mythical heroes, transferred to the end of the twentieth century, and the relationship of the main characters points, among other things, to the complex relations between Europe and the Balkans, particularly in regard to the recent events in the area of the latter. The author added a special flavour to his novel through a game of scents, which is at the same time a game of memories, associations, emotions; moreover, by following the track of the scents in the novel, the reader will be able to uncover a secret from one of the author’s previous novels, Last Love in Constantinople.
Author
Milorad Pavić was a Serbian poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian. Pavić wrote five novels which were translated into English: Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel, Landscape Painted With Tea, Inner Side of the Wind, Last Love in Constantinople and Unique Item as well as many short stories not in English translation.
