Južnjaci marš
Fužine is a settlement in Ljubljana, very similar to the blocks in New Belgrade, built during the socialist era for workers from the south of the SFRY who still do not have minority rights.
In the meantime, this neighborhood has become a ghetto ruled by criminals, turbo-folk music and jibbers. "Fuzine is like an Olympic village, because everyone wears tracksuits and speaks a different language. No one fucks anyone even five percent." The main character of the novel, Marko Đorđić, the seventeen-year-old son of Bosnian Serb emigrants and a talented basketball player with an identity crisis, one evening makes a rash decision to leave basketball to try to be what he wants, not what he is. "Maybe I'm not talented at your Slovenian, but maybe I'm talented at something else, you just haven't bothered to find out what it is. Every man is certainly talented at something." But a man's origin is sometimes stronger than himself, so Marko survives a series of unpleasant events (drunkenness, demolishing a bus, arrest, etc.), and on the orders of his father, he goes to Bosnia, the homeland of his ancestors, for "re-education"... The Slovenian police tried to "discipline" the writer Goran Vojinović and sued him for defamation due to the bad representation of policemen in the novel (which, among other things, Vojnović derogatorily calls cops, gendarmes, guards, dustmen)! After pressure from the public, art organizations and the Slovenian Minister of the Interior, the police withdrew the criminal prosecution.
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