Big Adventure - Slavko Pregl

White Washes at Ninety is a poignant, humorous, and inspiring novel that describes the life story of the narrator growing up in the 1970s and 1980s. Her childhood world consists of her parents, brother Rok, grandmother Dada, aunts and uncles, and her cocoa Benko, Albert cookies, the Sea and Seafarers Show, Gavrilović, and the broadcast of the Sarajevo Olympics. But although it talks about the above, the autobiographical novel is primarily a story about growing up, dealing with loss and illness, a story about domesticating fear, and about everything we don't want to see until we are inevitably confronted with it.