Kirsten J. Bishop: "Black Blossom is a genuinely magical story with the timeless qualities of legends and fairytales.

"[1] Zoran Stefanović: "European epic songs, Balkan ethnic narratives, fairy tales, geopolitical and conspiracy myths, modern sword and sorcery genre, stream of consciousness novel...

In my mind, Black Blossom is the only book I know that accurately and seamlessly integrates traditional and modern genres of completely different storytelling techniques.

Its nameless narrator, a persecuted young Serb, bargains with a captive wizard to obtain the strength he needs to defend himself.

(...) The allegorical intent of the story becomes clear only gradually, insofar as Knežević deliberately jumbles the order of his narrative, alternating early and later chapters in such a way that events of past and present are constantly mirroring and blending indistinguishably with one another.