A Jesuit and an English ambassador make a journey to Petrograd
across a gloomy, often desolate eighteenth-century Eastern Europe
in order to sight a rare transit of the sun by Venus. A Moldovan
student coming of age at the end of the twentieth century, and in
the aftermath of the Soviet Union's break-up, flees to the west in
search of a less gloomy life, only to find more of the sordid,
inhumane experience she had hoped to leave behind. A boy known only
as the Writer, under the sway of Paul Auster's novels, searches for
his theme and finally settles on an eighteenth-century Yugoslav
Jesuit known for his fascination with rare astronomical events. In
these subtly linked novellas, Muharem Bazdulj takes the reader
across several centuries of Yugoslav history, finding in three very
different sets of circumstances a common longing to escape the
desperation and depression of life in the east.
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