In Sarajevo, Masha grows up in Tito’s Yugoslavia and travels as a 17-year-old with her boyfriend Niko to Dubrovnik, Croatia, where they get engaged. But her life takes a new turn when she meets Pablo, marries him, moves to Chile, has three children and is later subjected to torture under the Pinochet regime.
She escapes but must leave the country and returns to Sarajevo with her children. After a political career and a new husband, she experiences the horrors of the war in the ʼ90s.

The war ends, and from refugee life in Croatia she returns to war-torn Sarajevo. Several events now intertwine in a mysterious way, and she once more experiences Tilda as a helping spirit, whose secret book she is in possession of.

The essence of the novel is the belief that you can decide your own destiny, but the trend, the basic condition, the truth is you can only do so to a certain extent. Fate, wars, the heart control the course of our lives. A well-written novel, highly recommended.
Kristeligt Dagblad

The Button and The Book is an intense account of a woman who has done as she has felt throughout her life. Selfish at times, doing as she pleased without looking too far back. But perhaps that is also exactly what has made her the woman she became—a survivor.
The Book Nerd

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