Kocke

Kocke #1+2

by Tamara Kučan

Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

About the author

Tamara Kucan is one of the youngest prose writers in Serbia. She started writing at the age of 16. In 2007, at the age of 17, her first novel Beogradjanka (Girl from Belgrade) was published by the publishing company ArsLibri. The first print run of the novel was sold out and the second edition was published by another publishing company, Urban Art. In 2008 another novel Made in Beograd (Made in Belgrade) was published. Belgrade, teenagers, night life, love and sex are some of the issues dealt with in this novel. The novel is a continuation of Tamara’s first novel and it can also be considered as a novel for itself. According to the readers, this is Tamara’s finest novel. The novel has had four print runs.
In 2010, Tamara Kucan becomes the youngest member ever being admitted to the Association of Writers of Serbia . The same year, her third novel Kocka was published. Considerably different than the previous two novels, Kocka is the the most mature novel of all Tamara’s novels. The novel is full of those every day topics and issues we hardly know about or even refuse to know about. Tamara’s recognizable style of writing- short sentences, without superfluous description is what makes this novel a powerful page-turner. Kocka (The Dice) is a novel that deals with the lives of four characters of different sexual orientation, it toys with the question of how much one would risk in order to succeed, it talks about the dreams of the young generations moving to Belgrade, and love without boundaries and judgment.
In 2012, upon readers ‘insistence, Tamara publishes one more novel Zauvek (Forever) , the continuation of the novels Made in Beograd and Beogradjanka. The ending of the Belgrade trilogy and also another story for itself, a compelling tale of two young people deeply in love. At the same year, Tamara published second part of novel Kocka, named Kocka 2 (The Dice 2).
In 2013, Tamara publishes novel Pescani sat (Hourglass), the story about high prostitution and elit in Balkan.

Tamara Kucan’s style of writing is often being compared to Charles Bukowski’s style of writing and her novel mirrors sociological aspects of life in Balkan.