Adio kauboju

And so. I arrived. Yes, I arrived! I returned to that city. Which is a huge wasteland, mud and olive groves, a wonder of dust, evenings on the neglected terrace of the Ilirija Hotel, heavy metals in the air, excrement and pine, cats and slippery fish scales on the greasy boat slipway and the sea is tense until November, when the lebići storms blow in. With these words, Ruzinava, in the summer of 200X, returns to the seaside town, and the adventure of reading the novel Adio kabojo by Olja Savičević Ivančević begins. Adio Cowboy is a novel about intolerance, about violence, about others and the different, in this case about Daniel, Ruzinava's brother, and the Iroquois Brothers, about a family with two sisters and a mother and their relationships, about a generation that is falling apart, about the local transitional boss Vrdovđek, about false heroes Ned Montgomery and Anđel with a harmonica – it's clear, we are in the heart of a western – there is also the investigation of a death, an iron horse in full gallop, a mysterious letter, emails, the writer Mrs. 0, a home porn video… The novel is told through poetic fragments of exceptional density, jumping in time and space and gathering towards the end, the grand finale with shooting and travel. Michael Ondaatje and Sergio Leone met in this novel, the characters seem to speak something of the spirit of the islander Ranko Marinković, and the music was composed by Ennio Morricone and Toma Bebić. We could say, once upon a time in Stari Naselje, by the sea... And that's how it is today.