The Good Days

On the daily »guest workers express« bus that runs between Vienna and Belgrade, the narrator trundles through the Hungarian wilderness towards the city where he grew up. The bombings, the war, Milosevic, whom he first loved then hated, and his father, whose ideology and opportunism he held in contempt, drove him into exile. But even there, he could not escape the Balkans. In powerful language and impressive imagery, Marko Dinić tells the story of a traumatised generation that feels understood neither at home nor abroad, and who tries to understand the past and struggles with the future twenty years after the bombing of Belgrade.