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A short novel by Edo Popović, one of the most important Croatian prose writers of the 1990s and 2000s. The book is part of Popović's "Zagreb Cycle" – a critique of transition without pathos, but through absurdity and grotesqueness.
Island stories are inspired by some real-life situations and people from our islands, with the intention of leaving a small "trace in infinity". The rest is fictional.
The novel itself is conceptually carried by a lucid comparison of Dalmatia and the Wild West: on a thematic level, cowboys are the mythical place of the childhood of the main character and her brother.
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.
It is about the world of our Slavonian wastelands, a microspace in which all 60 stories take place. Numerous characters are woven into these stories with their own destinies.
Du Maurier masterfully blends sci-fi, the gothic atmosphere of Cornwall, and psychological drama – about addiction, escape from reality, identity, and the value of nostalgia. A tense and introspective novel, with an emphasis on how the past can be more da