I got a great compliment from Mauro Sirotić when we met close to my house earlier today. Several years ago, I gave him a copy of my Istrian Postcards.[1] He told me that he keeps it together with the bible. Whenever he feels like a story, he opens one of the two books. Having read a story or two, he closes the book he happens to have selected, and puts it back in its place. “Either book does the trick for me,” he chuckled. I was so pleased that I immediately went to my house and brought him a copy of my Belgrade Postcards.[2] He was delighted. “As far as I am concerned,” he said, “Belgrade is the best place in the world!” Whenever he feels like a story, now he will have three books to choose from.

Footnotes

1. Belgrade: Vračarski Breg, 2003.

2. Belgrade: Vračarski Breg, 2002.