“The beginning of this novel hints at a crime story, but it is a deception. It is a futuristic prose in which, through the change of generations in the Radović family, dilemmas, problems, social events in the past hundred or more years are analyzed, as well as their influence on nations and individuals. The murder of the former KGB agent, big businessman and tycoon Leonid in Moscow in the 1990s opens “Pandora’s box”, exposes many evils and sets in motion a series of old secrets and plots of the Radović family: grandfather Momo, before and after World War II in the ravines of Montenegro, his younger son Mijat, one of the main protagonists of the story, constantly on the edge of life and death, his heir Vladimir, torn between Russia, Serbia and Ukraine, or his son , Mom’s great-grandson Mijat, with whom this story reaches into the present and into the near future…
…Peđa Ristić shows with this novel how destructive and harmful our Slavic fatalism can be, if it is not focused on creative things, and on the other hand it also represents great potential, if channeled correctly…”

(Marina Đenadić, from a review, August ’23)

“This story is a phantasmagoria, an interweaving of riotous dreams and raw reality. Accordingly, the author composes the story from emotionally contrasting fragments, soft and harsh, explosive and then, like the Danube plain, lazily rolling. The heroes of “Kamilica” happen to be brave, and mostly weak, in a constant search for unattainable peace and happiness. The novel is woven from unexpected combinations of gray, absurd or firework events bordering on incredible twists.”

(Peca Perović, August ’22)