Contempt: Seventeen Stories and One Play This is a work that describes a period two decades ago, the last, turbulent year of the last century, marked by bombing, a state of emergency, and many other personal and collective upheavals. The novel is written in the first person, in the form of the narrator's reconstruction of the period of adolescence, growing up in the embrace of different, often conflicting truths – peers, teachers, parents, media – all under the pressure of sirens that announce danger day and night.
