Belladona

Andreas Banit, a writer and psychologist, an intellectual full of the desire to live, has his life take an unexpected turn when he is forced into early retirement because he refuses to flirt with the false intellectualism of the time. But, besides the miserable and unwanted pension, he learns that he is seriously ill. While digging into the past, he encounters histories of injustice against the persecuted and the powerless. In this uncompromising process he deals with various taboos and reveals to us today's world, almost dehumanized, where old age and illness are considered shameful and where eternal youth supposedly exists. In this elegant and wise novel, Daša Drndić courageously addresses the themes of illness, the inability to live and the inability to die.