What if you could predict your own destiny simply by shuffling the chapters of a book like a deck of Tarot cards?

Last Love in Constantinople is Milorad Pavić’s "handbook for divination," published in 1994. Structurally based on the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, the novel invites the reader to deal their own fate. The chapters correspond to specific Tarot cards, and the order in which they are read changes the outcome of the story and the "fortune" told to the reader.

The narrative is a magical saga set during the Napoleonic Wars, following two rival Serbian families—the Opujićs and the Teneckis—fighting on opposing sides in the French and Austrian armies. Their destinies intertwine in Constantinople, the city of secrets. Blurring the line between a love story and a mystical guide, Pavić transforms the act of reading into an act of prophecy.