Scherben

He has left Bosnia behind, yet the traces of war accompany him. In California, under an almost endless summer sky, he starts anew; his parents and a first love now lie far away.

He is advised to write everything down so that the past can take on some order. As he writes, childhood images press in, beautiful and painful, and with them a figure whose story gradually becomes woven together with his own.

The memories break apart, and with them the question of who he is when the familiar has been lost. The novel gathers the fragments and shows what remains of a person when war has changed everything.