A content of this novel is simple. Ida Alagar, the main character of the novel, is locked in a lift in one of the mansions in Milano, where she works as a house servant. A married couple Sforza, the owners of this" three-storey Taj Mahal" went to America for one months and Ida's " chances of survival are equal to Kelvin's zero" the absolute zero, when "even atomic movement stops" Twenty three year old incarcerated Ida remembers her past. There is a string of effective childhood, father's death, a loss of virginity. This claustrophobic novel, written in 1987, symbolically forecast bloody reality of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bosnian-Herzegovina lift is still stuck between a lower and upper floor. And contemporary reality of Bosnia and Herzegovina "is more fantastic than the most fantastic phantasy" as Mahmutefendic said, borrowing the expression from Dostoyevsky.
Kelvin's Zero
