Daša Drndić: Canzone di guerra
The latest addition to my website is Daša Drndić's Canzone di guerra. Our narrator is Tea Radan, a Croatian single mother who has emigrated to Çanada. In a series of…
Miljenko Jergović: Rod (Kin)
The latest addition to my website is Miljenko Jergović's Rod (Kin). This is an 800-page family novel, as the author calls it, but do not let that put you off.…
Ivana Bodrožić: Rupa (We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day)
The latest addition to my website is Ivana Bodrožić's Rupa (We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day). It is set in an unnamed city but clearly the Croatian town…
Dubravka Ugrešić: Muzej bezuvjetne predaje (The Museum of Unconditional Surrender)
The latest addition to my website is Dubravka Ugrešić's Muzej bezuvjetne predaje (The Museum of Unconditional Surrender). This is another first-class novel from Ugrešić about her favourite topics: exile, the…
Daša Drndić: Doppelgänger
The latest addition to my website is Daša Drndić's Doppelgänger. This book actually has two novellas: Doppelgänger and Pupi. Doppelgänger is about an elderly couple who meet on New Year's…
Dubravka Ugrešić: Ministarstvo boli (The Ministry of Pain)
The latest addition to my website is Dubravka Ugrešić's Ministarstvo boli (The Ministry of Pain). This is a (semi-)autobiographical novel about a Croatian woman, Tanja Lucić, who has left Croatia…
Dubravka Ugrešić: Forsiranje romana-reke (Fording the Stream of Consciousness)
The latest addition to my website is Dubravka Ugrešić's Forsiranje romana-reke (Fording the Stream of Consciousness). This is a wonderful, witty satire on literary conferences. The setting is a literary…