Here is the embodiment of
historiographic metafiction, a self-reflexive narrative that examines
not only its own historical postulates but also the grounds and scope of
historical knowledge itself. Readers will find themselves skillfully
catered to, whether they prefer the traditional or the avant-garde.
Petković gives us characters caught in the whirlwind of history, heroes
who face their destinies and say no. Spanning the period from the 18th
century to the 20th, this novel also conjures a fanciful and highly
(post)modern vision of the place we know from Borges, that garden of
forking paths.