Author: Vuk Drašković [Vuk Drashkovich]
Book title: Via Romana
Narrator: Dragana Ljumović [Drugganna Lumovich]
Duration: 8 hours and 56 minutes
No. of pages in black print: 254
Publisher: Oktoih [oktoeech], Štampar Makarije [shtampar Makareeyeh]
Place and year of publishing: Podgorica [Podgoritsa], Belgrade, 2013
About the book:
In the new novel by Vuk Drašković [Vuk Drashkovich], with a symbolic title Via Romana, the main character doctor Damjan Čavka [Dummian Chavka] describes nearly four centuries of Serbian stumbling, from 1602 to this day, through his own destiny. The Great Imperial Road is the best witness of centuries long sufferings, janissary, schism, homicides, suicides, beys and their subjects, winners and the won over, chetniks, partisans, ustashas, communists, all types of misconceptions, bloody revenges, blind worships and rebellions, greed, outlawry, dreams and harsh reality, plots and bad denouements, our individual and collective dramas.
The base of the novel is a moving confession of two janissaries from the same village, from the same house, but divided by centuries.