Davor Banović - Girl with broken umbrella

An ageing philosopher leaves behind an old floppy disk that holds an unpublished manuscript; the culmination of his life’s work. An eccentric high-tech artist is probably the only person in town that has the computer that can read the disk. An ex UN soldier sits atop a palace’s roof with a hand grenade mounted on a drone, waiting for the perfect moment to launch it on La préfecture de Police in Paris. A journalist brings a novelist’s vision to the screen and, as a result, brings a bit of understanding to a chaotic and limitless world.

At once philosophical and entertaining, Girl With the Broken Umbrella is a brilliant collection of intertwined stories set in the melting pot of contemporary Europe where the Eurovision songs cries reach far more people than philosophy books. Banovic’s vivid characters search for themselves and instead find one another, and perhaps even the meaning they’ve been missing in their lives. Girl With the Broken Umbrella is an unforgettable journey through life and philosophy that will stay with readers long after the last page.