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Ahorion is a constellation novel and a mine novel because it combines the literary imprint of the constellation Orion – the ruler of the winter sky – and the mine of knowledge about the prehistoric people who inhabited the area of present-day Vučedol.
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.
At the center of the story is a strong and aloof hero (a typical Grey character) who arrives in an area known as “Horse Empire Hill,” a place where exceptional wild and semi-wild horses are bred.
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.
People always think they know who the sponsor is: a calculating, not-so-bad-looking woman who married for money.
This short novel deserves to be called a classic. Its heroine, Holly Golightly, an eccentric young woman with a whimsical and unconventional demeanor, simply gets under the skin of the people around her and the readers of this novel.