Can a romance novel be written as a crime novel? Like an exciting detection game with that genre "whodunit" question? It certainly can, judging by the tools used by Drago Hedl in the construction of this brilliant novel.
If we speak in film terminology (and the new Hedl's confessional prose is an ideal template for a film or television medium), The Time of Sex in the Age of Innocence is a successful sequel of his first novel Lower Drava Coast. With his superb skill and sparkling creative enthusiasm, Hedl avoided all the pitfalls of notorious sequels, those created by mechanical producer whims, and not out of real authorial need.
Henrik “HP” Pettersson is on the run. It's been fourteen months since he was dragged into an alternate reality game via his cell phone that nearly cost him his life.
With his humorous miniatures, Drnić takes us on a safari through the urban milieu from the 90s onwards, a space-time that many of us have been part of, but only a few of us have seen and known everything about.