Why a Booktrail?
2025: A man goes to Budapest to open a very special box
The Investigator
What you need to know before your trail
The news of his mother’s death finds the writer in Budapest and prompts the opening of an old black box of family mementos. Inevitably, this leads to an unravelling of multi-layered stories and an investigation into everyday lives and times that no longer exists. The Investigator contains everything that has made the author so successful in his homeland: a perfect sense for detail, linguistic precision, a brilliantly polished style. While the novel starts as the search for a lost mother, it soon becomes a story about a country and a people who have passed; an elegy for Yugoslavia as well as a family.
Locations
Reset- Hungary - Budapest
- A: Erzsébet Bridge
- Macedonia - Ohrid
- B: Lake Ohrid
- Serbia
- C: Šabac
- Croatia - Pula
- D: Pula harbour
- E: Vinkovci
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- F: Kastel Fortress
Travel Guide
Serbia and Yugoslavia
Budapest, Macedonia, Pula, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Belgrade, Croatia
There are many locations in this novel from Belgrade to New Belgrade, Serbia, Macedonia and Budapest. This is a story about Yugoslavia and the story of the pieces of a country and community that has shaped people’s lives and history over the years. The castle in Bosnia & Herzegovina is particularly impressive.
Dragan Velikić is a Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and former Ambassador to Austria. He’s one of the best known writers of modern Serbia.
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Destination/location: Budapest, Macedonia, Pula, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Belgrade, Croatia Author/guide: Dragan Velikic Departure Time: 2025
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