The sun-kissed Balkans, the clear waves of the Adriatic… A tempting picture, so lovely to dream about on gloomy days at the office. But what if you stayed there not just for a short vacation, but forever? What if you tried to find your place among this incredible beauty, among these people with their proud Roman profiles, this life—so vibrant and so scorching?
The novel's heroine and her friends did just that. They peered into this Balkan reality, seductive and alien, experiencing the joy of discovery and the bitterness of loss. And when He appears in this life, the kaleidoscope of feelings becomes seemingly unbearable…
"The Balkan Decameron" is a rare "novel of the senses" in our time, where the reader sees the world through the heroine's eyes. And this world turns out to be complex and captivating, hospitable and difficult to understand—like the Balkans themselves.