For over fifty years, Belgrade has provided a constant source of inspiration for the writer and painter Momo Kapor. In hisstories, essays and sketches, as well as in the highly refined strokes of his pen, he has been trying to discover wht it is that actually constitutes the magic of Belgrade. This book consists of stories and fragments, of anecdotes and of strange biographies of the inhabitants of this city which have beene selected from a few of the forty-plus books produced by this author of bestsellers translated into numerous languages. All these texts attempt to determine what it is that makes this city different from others - in a nutshell, what is that thing known as the spirit of Belgrade.