How to Tie Your Shoes

How to Tie Your Shoes is a confessional narrative that dealswith the relationship between a father and sonmoreprecisely it narrates this relationships absence into existence.The novel begins when the narrator learns that his father isterminally ill and decides to return home to arrange for hismedical care. Mixing the most private fragments of theirfamilial saga with the turbulent recent history of post-Yu-goslav transition, the book connects seemingly divid-ed fields of private and public and suggests a strong linkbetween the two facets of trauma individual and collective.