The Vlado Gotovac National Library in Sisak is announcing a literary evening and the launch of the novel The Queen of the Game. The promotion of the novel and a meet-and-greet with the author will take place on Thursday, 5 November at 18:00 in the premises of the Vlado Gotovac National Library in Sisak, and entry is free.
The novel The Queen of the Game was written by Maja Jasić Dašić, a Sisak native residing in Slavonski Brod. Alongside the author, moderator and writer Bogdan Arnautović will speak about the novel.
The Queen of the Game is a layered and atmospheric adventure-psychological thriller whose protagonist is a young woman from Croatia, Lalita Vedani. In search of her own identity and happiness, Lalita travels to the British capital, where she is drawn into a dangerous and mysterious web of dirty games, secret societies, eccentric characters and a whirlwind of espionage. At the same time, she fights her own internal battle, confronting her fears, doubts and a mind that sabotages her, which she calls Hobsi.
The novel contains a mystical world of lucid dreaming and the awakening of hidden, creative talents, as well as a blend of literature, history and technology. Readers will enter the House of Writers with Lalita and, with the help of holograms, immerse themselves in the works of great literary masterpieces and visit the Art Theatre of Living Figures. The character of a pug named Blekija also appears in the novel.
Maja Jasić Dašić is a professor of the Croatian language and literature and philosophy, and a master’s graduate in librarianship. She publishes short stories and artistic-essayistic texts on her website, Goddess of the Lotus – Maja Jasić Dašić’s blog, and shares announcements for her texts on the same-named Facebook page and on her Instagram profile. Her short stories and travelogue have been published in the journal for literature and art Blind Traveller and in the story collections of the author group All Tones of Passion, True Friends and Behind the Prose Doors: The Golden Palace, Part 9.
The novel The Queen of the Game is her debut adventure-psychological thriller, published in collaboration with the publishing house Prof & Graf.
