Catch the Rabbit
by Lana Bastašic
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Pub Date 27 May 2021 | Archive Date 27 May 2021
Pan Macmillan | Picador
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Description
**Winner of the European Prize for Literature 2020**
Translated by the author.
A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia head towards a lost brother and a collision with the lies they’ve told themselves about where they’re from.
Sara hasn't seen or heard from Lejla in years. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can't say no.
What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla's brother who disappeared towards the end of the Bosnian War. Presumed dead by everyone else, only Lejla and Sara believed Armin was still alive.
Confronted with the limits of memory, Sara is forced to reconsider the things she thought she understood as a girl: the best friend she loved, the first experiences they shared, but also the social and religious lines that separated them, that brought them such different lives.
In Catch the Rabbit, Lana Bastašic tells the story of how we place the ones we love on pedestals, and then wait for them to fall off, how loss marks us indelibly, and how the traumas of war echo down the years.
Advance Praise
**Winner of the European Prize for Literature 2020**
‘Lewis Carroll meets Elena Ferrante in a Balkanized Wonderland’ Jasmina Vrbavac
'Lana Bastašic . . . possesses a truly authentic narrative voice. Her storytelling is both mature and energetic, and she has set a very high literary standard with this first novel.' Dubravka Ugrešic
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781529039603 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
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