It is the same story set in a slightly different context. Paulo da Costa Families are also moving around much more than in the past. The entire world is on a faster track than before and perhaps whatever is happening in a fast moving family can also help us to understand whatever is happening in the fast moving world. Maybe I was influenced in all of this by some of my readings of the old Chinese text of The Book of Change, The I Ching, where a relatively small number of combinations of those Yin and Yang lines, whole and divided, is used to explain everything that is happening in the world. The I Ching was a great influence in my life.
Patterns repeat themselves, only the scales are different.
You are an accomplished translator of Anglo-Saxon literature and have translated into Serbian works of D. M. Thomas, Robert Coover, Thomas Pynchon among others. It doesn't hurt me. It may hurt other writers who wish to devote time to being involved and active in issues then being outside would hurt you a lot. Since writers have to pretend they are somebody else in their writing, being your own double is sometimes a good thing.