Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, is trying to change the world and write a novel. She, a struggling actress, has given up her steady job at the theatre to care for their child. He is delirious; she is on edge. With the rent overdue and violence looming on all sides, the two of them circle one another in a dizzying dance towards the abyss.

Winner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis.

Ivana Sajko, born in Zagreb in 1975, is a writer, theatre director and performer, working in the overlapping fields of literature, performance art and music. She is an author of five highly-praised novels and dozens of political theatre pieces, among which Woman-bomb gained international success. Her many awards include the Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et Lettres and the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis. She lives in Berlin.

‘A brilliant novel: intense and poetic, exhilarating and devastating.’ Priya Basil

The experiences so original, the observations so sharp, the thoughts so clever.’ Frankfurter Rundschau.

Publication of this audiobook was cofunded by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.