Calzean's Reviews > The Book of Blam

During WWII Yugoslavia was carved up, partitioned, dissected and euthanised. In the Vojvodina province, Novi Sad was governed by the Hungarians and along with Jews many old scores were settled.
Miroslav Blam survives but now needs to live with his regrets, guilt and more difficultly with people who were once his enemies.
The book has a couple of depressing chapters that stood out from the other depressing chapters. One describes what happened to the individuals who resided in Jew Street. Another described the 1942 massacre of Jews and Serbs by following the conduct of a number of the Hungarian patrols. In between these depressive tales the book also covers the normality of life that also occurred and the revengeful atrocities that occurred at the end of WWII.
In a short book, Tisma gives a snapshot of the complexities of Serbia and the brutality of man to man.