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“In author Iva Radivojević’s hands, a mini-novella becomes a distillation for a child’s perception
of her domestic universe transformed by the swirling disruptions of a fractured late 20 th Century
nation state. Just as a text message rife with the transmission of a crisis can shatter a quiet
morning today, the ring of a telephone in early 1990s Yugoslavia becomes the harbinger of a
primal loss and a journey soon to be taken. Radivojević writes with astonishing precision and
intuition, bringing a filmmaker’s sense of rhythm to a story at once taut and expansive.” – Lynne Sachs
Hardcover reprint by Big Black Mountain The Darkness That Never Ever Comes, in Athens, Greece.
This story was conceived through a constraint. It arose one day suddenly and without warning,
in a poetry workshop with the late Lewis Warsh. The book is a meditation on memory – remembering and forgetting.
Or, it’s a tribute to those memories that sustain like stubborn specters, haunting the present.
It’s looping and recurring opening paragraph reveals a larger story of dislocation:
It happened in a place that exists, only in books, films and memories of those born before 1995.
When the phone rang it was 1992, 10:36am, a Tuesday,and in this moment the country of Y was still a country.
The story was adapted to a screenplay, and became a film by the same name.
Available for puchase : Big Black Mountain
Edited by Lotte L.S. and Iva Radivojević
Foreword by Corina Copp
Illustrations by Sierra Pettengill
Design by Studio Lialios Vazoura
Language: English
Pages: 96
Format: 120 × 170mm, cloth hardback
Edition: 250 copies
ISBN: 978-618-87122-7-0