Živković još jednom ispoljava raskošnu moć pripovedanja u ovom složenom vrtložju međusobno prepletenih narativnih niti. Nalik na Esherove crteže, te niti vode čitaoca kroz vrtoglavi lavirint tema, prizora i likova koji se iznova javljaju i koji su povezani elegantnom matematičkom preciznošću: Bog i samoubistvo, hrana i otrov, monasi, atletičari, vojnici i fudbaleri - svi imaju svoje mesto u ovoj kružnoj igri. Roman kipti od apsurdnosti, nadrealnosti i humora; smrt je krajnji usud, ali naredna priča uvek nudi beskrajne mogućnosti uzmaka.
Tamar Jelin, pisac romana Geniza u kući Šefera
Zoran Živković was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in 1948. In 1973 he graduated from the Department of General Literature with the theory of literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade; he received his master's degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982 from the same school.
He is the author of the following seventeen works of fiction: The Fourth Circle (1993), Time Gifts (1997), The Writer (1998), The Book (1999), Impossible Encounters (2000), Seven Touches of Music (2001), The Library (2002), Steps through the Mist (2003), Hidden Camera (2003), Compartments (2004), Four Stories till the End (2004), Twelve Collections and the Teashop (2005), The Bridge (2006), Miss Tamara, the Reader (2006), Amarcord (2007), The Last Book (2007) and Escher's Loops (2008).
He lives in Belgrade, Serbia, with his wife Mia, their twin sons Uroš and Andreja, and their four cats.
Zoran Živković rođen je u Beogradu 1948. Diplomirao je 1973. na Odseku za opštu književnost s teorijom književnosti Filološkog fakulteta Univerziteta u Beogradu. Na istom fakultetu magistrirao je 1979. i doktorirao 1982, a od 2007. predaje kreativno pisanje.
Dobitnik je sledećih književnih nagrada: "Miloš Crnjanski" (1994), "Svetska nagrada za fantastiku" (2003), "Isidora Sekulić" (2007) i "Stefan Mitrov-Ljubiša" (2007).
