Premeditated Murder

By Slobodan Selenić

Jelena is a young drama student and photographer in contemporary Belgrade. Lively, intelligent and complex, she hides a big heart behind a surly look, and uses highly-coloured, provocative language as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860461344
• ISBN13: 9781860461347
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Harvill Pr
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Finally a portray of an average Serbian student's thoughts!

Amazingly interesting and easy-to-read story of an average student in Serbia in lieu of the current and past political events of the country. By constantly interplaying the post-WWII communist period with the 1990s "socialist," Selenic describes the attitudes of everyday Serbian people, the ones truly affected by the events. Truly a masterpiece (if you do not mind some foul language, since the English translation is usually very accurate)!

exhilarating account of life during the '91-'95 Balcan War

"Premeditated Murder" takes its readers from Belgrade before the WWII to the latest war. Jelena, the centerpiece of this heart-shattering story, tries desperately to survive the horrors of the Balkan Wars. Her life reflects lives of many young people in Yugoslavia - seeking solutions to being born in a wrong place at a wrong time while the wrong officials were leading the country into the dusk of the 20th century.