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Irwin Shaw's Young Lions is a monumental war novel that follows the fates of three soldiers – two Americans and one German – during World War II.
Lucy Crown, a woman from a respectable family, seeks an escape from an empty marriage through an affair. When her son discovers it, the entire family falls apart, leaving Lucy faced with guilt and loneliness.
What it's like to grow up in a family where roles are mixed up, can be told by teenager Viktorija, who sometimes acts as a mom to her mother. How is that possible?
The novel itself is conceptually carried by a lucid comparison of Dalmatia and the Wild West: on a thematic level, cowboys are the mythical place of the childhood of the main character and her brother.
Lana Derkačs Prosa ist eine jener seltenen Ausnahmen, die sich nicht dem Wettlauf um Leserzahlen und der Anpassung an die Gesetze der Marktlogik beugen; Ausnahmen, in denen Subtilität und Reflexion Vorrang vor Fabularisierung und dem Flirten mit den Leser