• 25.09.2025.
• Zagreb, HR

New title – „The Navel of the Light“

After a series of non-fiction titles, just in time for the season of reading under the blanket, here comes a novel!

The novel The Navel of the Light by award-winning Macedonian author Venko Andonovski is a spiritual and literary extension of the author's previous work The Navel of the World from 2000, and explores deep philosophical and moral dilemmas, posing the question of how an individual copes with the crisis of meaning in contemporary society. Andonovski skillfully and lucidly plays with time and space, temporal discontinuity, but also with one of the eternal obsessions of the human race – immortality.
The three main stories take place during three historical periods, with (non)random synchronicities between them, and cover several key themes: loyalty, eternity, someone else's sin and one's own sinlessness. The game with existence in multiple periods (or in multiple parallel universes) is simultaneously supported by a dynamic narrative in which there is no coincidence, with a multitude of metatextual remarks that boil down to the question – is storytelling given to us so that we can understand that everything is simultaneously the present, the past and the future?

You can learn more about the book here.