June 1999. NATO troops occupied Kosovo. The main character, Kosovo Serb Maria Lepic, remains in Kosovo despite the danger. For what? By chance? To be a biased witness to what is happening? Because her parents were kidnapped by Albanians? For love of a British officer? Or to the American sergeant? Can she answer this question herself? Does at least one hero know the truth about what is happening to the world and to himself? Are there any reliable things left, and aren’t they as fragile as a dandelion? Be careful not to trample it!

Kosovo Serbs believe that whoever tramples a dandelion will die. Therefore, the brave British paratrooper Harold Keane, who parachuted onto a green meadow, is first warned by the young Kosovo Serbian Maria Lepic: do not trample the dandelion. So acquaintance and love begin against the backdrop of war - love that cannot end except tragically. 1999, Kosovo is occupied by NATO troops, Albanians are stubbornly pushing the Serbs out of Pristina, forcing them to sell their homes and businesses for next to nothing, but Maria is in no hurry to leave. As a graduate of the Romano-Germanic department of the university, she is hired as a translator for NATO members and, using her connections, tries to help her acquaintances, Serbs and Jews, whom the Albanians do not like. For those who want to know why she doesn't go to Serbia, Maria says that the Albanians kidnapped her parents and she hopes to get information about them. But what really keeps the girl in Pristina is the red beret of Keen, who decided to desert from NATO troops, Major Shuster, who has great influence in the city, or Sgt. John, a handsome young American and an aspiring writer? Maria herself does not seem to know this. Perhaps she wants to witness everything that is happening in her native Kosovo. And, it is possible, even die in it. Purisha Djordjevic is a classic of Yugoslav cinema of the 1960s, who had a significant influence on the famous Emir Kusturica. Having been a young partisan and a prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, Djordjevic especially often turns to the military-partisan theme in his work. Therefore, the parallels between World War II and NATO bombings, repeatedly drawn in his novel “The Kosovo Dandelion,” are, of course, not accidental - in his opinion, the difference between the fascist and NATO occupation of Serbia is not so great. Moreover, in the preface the author proudly recalls his military past and, anticipating objections to the way he portrayed Albanians and NATO members (not the nicest guys), answers in advance that he is ready for ostracism just as he was ready for a death sentence from the Germans in 1942. Although in his tragicomic novel by Djordjevic actively condemns the military actions in Yugoslavia, there are no real villains among the heroes - neither among the Albanians, nor among the Serbs, nor even among NATO members, except perhaps Clinton, Blair and Albright. Even the Albanian Djinovici, who opened an anti-Serbian pizzeria called “Hitleri”, which was later renamed “Hilary”, and a Canadian journalist who sent a deliberately false story about the murder of an Albanian girl by the Serbs, but refused to tell the world about the Albanians’ oppression of Jews, because it “is not relevant,” refuse as comic rather than sinister figures. In conflicts like the Yugoslav one, it makes no sense to look for one person to blame and make him a scapegoat. War is a complex, absurd, grotesque thing, at the same time terrible and funny, and in order to understand it, it is best to show it that way. This is what Purisha Djordjevic does in her book.