How to Tie Your Shoes

How to Tie Your Shoes is a confessional narrative that deals with the relationship between a father and son-more precisely it narrates this relationship's absence into existence. The novel begins when the narrator learns that his father is terminally ill and decides to return home to arrange for his medical care. Mixing the most private fragments of their familial 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 link between the two facets of trauma: individual and collective.