The Bridge

What is the link between red hair, a red bowling ball and a red bikini? Between an overcoat with asymmetrical lapels, a scarf with two blotches and a pair of non-matching sneakers? In this brainteasing trio of stories, Zoran ivkovi explores the collision of realities: a man encounters an alternate self, a woman out on a shopping trip runs into her dead neighbor and a fourteen-year-old girl chases her seventeen-year-old future son across town. Through absurd predicament, surreal situations and hot pursuit, ivkovi addresses deep and ultimately poignant questions of fate and chance, the vagaries of human character and the hidden potential which lies within us all.

• Winner of the 2007 Isidora Sekuli Award
• Winner of the Golden Hit Liber Award (given by Serbian National Television to the most prominent prose book published in 2007)
• Shortlisted for the 2007 NIN Award