Amazingly interesting and easy-to-read story of an average student in Serbia in lieu of the current and past political events of the country. By constantly interplaying the post-WWII communist period with the 1990s "socialist," Selenic describes the attitudes of everyday Serbian people, the ones truly affected by the events. Truly a masterpiece (if you do not mind some foul language, since the English translation is usually very accurate)!

"Premeditated Murder" takes its readers from Belgrade before the WWII to the latest war. Jelena, the centerpiece of this heart-shattering story, tries desperately to survive the horrors of the Balkan Wars. Her life reflects lives of many young people in Yugoslavia - seeking solutions to being born in a wrong place at a wrong time while the wrong officials were leading the country into the dusk of the 20th century.