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The Fig by Goran Voynovych is a novel of intertwined fates of Oleksandr and Yana, Vesna and Safet, Yadran and Ania. But first and foremost, it is the story of Yadran, who builds a big story of his family's past out of a mosaic of individual stories in order to understand his own present. Unable to understand why his wife Anya left him, he tries to find an explanation for why his grandfather Oleksandr left this world. He tries to comprehend the death of his grandmother Yana, the disorder of her memories, her forgetfulness, her life in the world of dementia. Jadran tries to explain the departure of his father Safet, his disappearance from Ljubljana in the first year of the Balkan War. And to understand his mother Vesna, her inexplicable anger at her grandfather, her muted disappointment with her father. But when the story is told, the reasons explained, the occasions comprehended, the motives revealed, Jadran realises that the past does not absolve him of responsibility for the future.