7SAGA · I7SAGA · NOVELS BY IVAN LAPČEVIĆ
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At seven, Pavle cannot walk, and his mother Vera refuses to accept the life others have decided for him. Begin with The Seventh Life, then discover the other novels in 7SAGA.
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The Seventh Life
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Explore the bookA connected cycle of novels by Ivan Lapčević
Seven baptisms. Stories of moments that shift a person's inner axis forever.
Novels about growing up, identity, belonging and the cost of choice. Each stands alone; if you read them in order, begin with The Seventh Life.
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Book I
The Seventh Life
Baptism by Fire
Pavle grows up in a mountain village in Yugoslavia. Hunger and poverty teach him to run before he knows where he is going. Basketball opens the world to him, but every success carries a new price—and the past finds him where he least expects it.
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Book II
The Seventh Trial
Baptism by Earth
When an investigation destroys the world his father built, Adrien heads for the mountains convinced he knows who is to blame. Among strangers who carry what they cannot say, each new step strips away another alibi.
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Book III
The Seventh Embrace
Baptism by Tears
Selena arrives in Barcelona believing that belonging can be earned through work, love and strength. But every refuge has its rules, and every voice that tells her who she is asks for something in return.
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BOOK IV · THE SEVENTH FEAR
Book IV
The Seventh Fear
Baptism by Emptiness
“Fear is not what comes, but what remains when there is no one left to be afraid.”
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What is 7SAGA?
When the world outside gives way, what remains of a person?
7SAGA is a cycle of interconnected novels by Ivan Lapčević. Each book follows a person at the moment when the foundations that once sustained them are no longer enough. Within the cycle, those experiences are called baptisms.
The novels have different protagonists and can be read separately. Reading them in order reveals connections that remain in the background of each individual story.
FireEarthTearsThe Void
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Three doors into the world of 7SAGA
A birth beneath the snow. A man appearing across the street. A house a girl first builds in pencil. Each scene opens a question the novel carries deeper.
Part One · Childhood · Below
YUGOSLAVIA, 1974 — a village beneath Mount Kopaonik
The screams struck the walls of the hut. Vera twisted on the wet straw, tearing at an old shirt as she labored for hours to push the child from her body. Her palms searched for purchase on the frozen earth, while the cold crept through the boards and clung to her back.
Outside, the snow fell thick. Zoran stood behind the door in the darkness, his arms at his sides. He breathed shallowly and listened to what was happening within.
At another scream, Zoran moved to the window. The plastic sheet trembled in the wind, and through its cloudy surface he saw a silhouette fold and rise again.
· · ·
The pain dragged her back to the straw.
— Take me. Spare him — she said through clenched teeth.
Another spasm tore through her body. For a moment there was silence. Then the child cried, sharp and thin. Vera drew him to her chest.
“My son.”
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The Address Across the Street
The next time his mother called, it was almost evening.
— I called you yesterday.
— I was out.
— Where?
He walked to the window. The street still held the day's heat. A delivery van threaded between parked cars, followed by the brief ring of a bicycle bell.
The metal box above the rear wheel entered his view first. Then a narrow back bent over the handlebars, and a shoulder dropping with every hard push on the pedal.
The man he had sent Votren to find.
Jean passed beneath his window, crossed the street and stopped before the gray shutter opposite the only address Adrien had left. He took a key from his pocket.
As Adrien pulled on his shoes, one foot remained bare. He went back into the hall for the other shoe, then headed downstairs carrying it in his hand.
The shutter across the street was already down. He walked past it, returned to the intersection and checked the number above his own entrance.
“Eighty-four.”
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The Blue Notebook
After that night, the lamp burned on the table more and more often. The pencil grew shorter. The eraser wore away. The bin filled with crumpled sheets of paper.
At last, the line lay straight.
When spring finally softened the earth, the pencil moved easily across the paper. I drew a long, unbroken line through the very center of the page. The horizon.
Below the horizon I drew the sharp, dense waves of a sea I had never seen. Above the line, a house rose: secure walls, a pitched roof, a broad terrace with a sturdy railing, and steps leading straight down to the water.
Then I moved to the lower right corner. I drew two tiny figures. A boy and a girl. Behind them I sketched two taller silhouettes. Myself and a tall male figure. His head was only an outline.
Beneath him I drew two joined hands. Finally I pressed down on the pencil. Its sharp point pierced the top sheet and left a mark on the page below.
I set the pencil beside the notebook. The kerosene flame trembled.
“The house on the page remained whole.”
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