For three days, Janko dug through dusty files in the basement of the municipal office. Finally, a clerk named Mirna found it: a leather-bound volume labeled "Gruntovna općina Zagreb – Stari Grad." She carefully opened it to the page for Janko’s address — List 47, Građevinska knjiga za kč.br. 1234.
The page was handwritten in elegant, fading ink. It listed every change to the property since 1928: original ownership, the extension of the kitchen in 1953, the replacement of the roof in 1975. But the most important entry was from 1936: "Granice dvorišta utvrđene međašnim znakovima – jugoistočna granica prolazi uz stablo bora." (Courtyard boundaries confirmed by boundary markers – southeast border runs along the pine tree.) list građevinske knjige
- Autor: Vladimir Lazarević