Rhythm of Departures is a psychologically nuanced novel about full-blooded women whose lives were filled with tragedies. The novel follows transgenerational trauma in the case of four heroines whose life without connection, acceptance, joy and support flows through painful events in a remote province. In this novel everyone will find a piece of their own biography, and be immersed in it like in a disheveled parental legacy full of old photos.
Vlasta Golub, born in Virovitica in 1966, graduated Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She has been professionally employed as an actress at the Virovitica Theater for thirty years. In her forties, she started writing, and in recent years she has established herself as the author of three published and award-winning novels for young people and as the author of radio dramas.
She received the Zvonko Award of the Croatian Society of Writers for Children and Young People for her manuscript “About Love, Plots and Bits of Everything ” in 2016. The novel “Eva, young woman”, was published in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Grigor Vitez Award. She received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture for the novel “Pauline’s Cats”in 2020. In addition to her published works, in 2021 her radio drama for young people “Nothing could be done” was premiered on Croatian National Televison.
