Momo Kapor Book order

For over fifty years, Belgrade has provided a constant source of inspiration for the writer and painter Momo Kapor. In hisstories, essays and sketches, as well as in the highly refined strokes of his pen, he has been trying to discover wht it is that actually constitutes the magic of Belgrade. This book consists of stories and fragments, of anecdotes and of strange biographies of the inhabitants of this city which have beene selected from a few of the forty-plus books produced by this author of bestsellers translated into numerous languages. All these texts attempt to determine what it is that makes this city different from others - in a nutshell, what is that thing known as the spirit of Belgrade.

Belgrade author and painter Momo Kapor has spent many years studying the mentality of his countrymen. The fruit of this literary research is this book, a book that will help you grasp the essence of the Serbian people and their way of life. This longtime columnist for the distinguished Serbian daily Politika and the monthly magazine JAT Review, published by JAT Airways, has compiled the best and most interesting of his articles for this book, which is richly illustrated with his own drawings. This book's readers will learn, through a self-ironic and humorous tone typical of books by George Mikesh, Efraim Kishon and Art Buchwald, what Serbs like and dislike, whom they admire and despise, what they eat and what they drink, how they spend their free time, what they dream about and what they believe; in a word, book is about what constitutes a Serb from the inside.