A review by aaanabel
The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović

5.0

This book touched me in a way no book ever has. It tore trough my chest and stroked my heart with bloody fingernails. It made me feel warm inside in the most brutal way. Goran truly is a wonderful person with a wonderful voice emerging from a beautiful brain. At this point I think I could read his shopping list and praise about it for months. Therefore, I thank him with all my heart for this beautiful piece of fiction that is a lot more than just fiction and expands beyond our lives and comprehension of them. It is the kind of a book that never really leaves you, rather it changes you fundsmentally and you cannot unread it. You keep rediscovering it as you live your life, it never really stops being relevant and you always find something in it - comfort, a good laugh or just an escape ... For me The Fig Tree was kind of a 'take whatever you need' station. And it gave me a lot.