Stopper Jalal Plevlyak sits in line for the & quot; Volga & quot; and goes from Split to Livno to pray in the mosque. For fifteen years he has been driving back and forth on this road every week, thinking that he knows every turn and every tree on it, until he is stopped by a sudden snowfall and a punctured wheel on the Croatian-Bosnian border. Which door to knock for help & ndash; Christian or Muslim? His further life, already rich in adventures, depends on this decision. It is a story of painful loneliness, of faith and loss; a novel about a car and its driver, who in socialist Yugoslavia believes in Allah as sincerely as he believes in communist ideals. Written as a detective, & quot; Volga, Volga & quot; goes far beyond this genre, proving once again that Ergovic is able to look into the deepest recesses of the human psyche and soul.
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