The novel Summer, When I Learned to Fly borrows the familiar form of diary entries, except that they are not actual records, but the memories and thoughts of a young girl, Sofija, who reflects on the past day in the evening. It is made up of twenty-three chapters, which chronicle the twenty-three nights that Sofija spends with her grandmother on vacation with relatives on Hvar. The basic conflict is outlined at the very beginning; Sofija and her grandmother Marija live in Belgrade, and Marija returns to her native Hvar after more than twenty years. Why was her grandmother absent from Hvar for so long, why did no one tell Sofija that she had an extended family on the island, why was she not allowed to use Cyrillic, did everyone really love Tito? Sofija is asked countless questions. (taken from the general page emka.si)