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We should never take our daily bread for granted

24 October 2020

9:00 AM

24 October 2020

9:00 AM

Our Daily Bread: A Meditation on the Cultural and Symbolic Significance of Bread Throughout History Predrag Matvejevic, translated by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric

Istris Books, pp.140, 10.99

In the seventh and final chapter of this small but lingeringly powerful book, the author reveals his motivation for writing it. His father, he explains, a Russian-born Yugoslav soldier, had been a prisoner of war of the Germans, part of a group consigned to do forced labour felling trees during the bitterly cold winter of 1942-43.

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