Lana Biondić is the author of the book "Life on High Heels", which became a bestseller and brought the whole of Croatia to its feet.
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Lana Derkač's prose is one of those rare exceptions that does not agree to race on readership charts and adapt to the laws of market logic, exceptions in which subtlety and reflection take precedence over fabularization and flirting with readers.
Although initially banned in Saudi Arabia, this novel raised a lot of dust and sparked many discussions, lawsuits, and even protests, and became an absolute bestseller in the Middle East, and now in the West.
What it's like to grow up in a family where roles are mixed up, can be told by teenager Viktorija, who sometimes acts as a mom to her mother. How is that possible?
This work of great momentum and ambition follows numerous striking characters from Afghanistan to Paris and from San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos, and tells their touching and irresistible stories.
In the novel, the author describes and comments on domestic socio-political phenomena with dark humor and criticism, almost vaudeville-like, while using a good deal of lively and juicy Međimurje speech.
The King of Westerns, in his posthumously published novel "Princess Ranch" (1942), weaves a tense story of love, courage, and the clash of old tradition with new chaos. In addition to classic cowboy motifs, Prohibition and gangsters appear.