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"Svih osam priča u ovoj knjizi govore o putovanju. I nijedno od tih putovanja ne odnosi se samo na pomeranje u prostoru. Čitaoci proze Saše Ilića na to su već navikli: njegovi junaci kreću se kroz prostor samo da bi što dublje zaronili u sebe, i tu naleteli na – ježa. Te bodlje čiji ih ubodi peku i od kojih dobijaju groznicu, zapravo su traumatični događaji (reč je, znamo već to, o masovnim zločinima) koji su bitno odredili i kolektivnu i pojedinačne istorije ljudi na prostoru Jugoslavije, ali i čitave Evrope. Saša Ilić se ne udvara čitaocima, ne izbegava neprijatne teme, on traži sagovornike i saveznike u pokušaju da izađe iz slepe ulice u koju je Srbija uletela u devedesetima, i iz koje ne ume da izađe ni u dvehiljaditim." -- cover

"All eight stories in this book are about traveling. And none of these trips relate only to moving in space. The readers of the prose of Saša Ilić have already become accustomed to this: his heroes move through the space only to dive deeper into themselves, and they encounter the enemy. These scars which are battered by the baker and from which they get fever are in fact traumatic events (the word is, we already know, about mass crimes), which also determined the collective and individual histories of people in the territory of Yugoslavia as well as throughout Europe. Saša Ilić does not succumb to readers, he does not avoid the unpleasant topics, he asks interlocutors and allies in an attempt to get out of the blind street in which Serbia flew in the nineties, and from which it can not even go out in the two thousandth." -- very rough translation of the cover