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Books set in Croatia:


Croatian tales of long ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
On the Edge of Reason: A Novel by Miroslav Krleža
April Fool's Day by Josip Novakovich
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić
Secret of the Bloody Bridge by Marija Jurić Zagorka
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War by Slavenka Drakulić
Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić
The Return of Philip Latinowicz by Miroslav Krleža
Cyclops by Ranko Marinković
The Sound of Blue: A Novel by Holly Payne
Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust by Josip Novakovich
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, Second Edition by Marcus Tanner
Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh by Slobodan Novak
Zagreb, Exit South by Edo Popović
Salvation and Other Disasters by Josip Novakovich
A Castle in Romagna by Igor Štiks
From Croatia With Love by Brynn Paulin
Interception by Nathan Meyer
The Survival League by Gordan Nuhanović
American Scream: & Palindrome Apocalypse by Dubravka Oraic-Tolic
Escape from Despair by Katarina Tepesh
Running Away to Home by Jennifer Wilson
ALL TIGERS, NO DONKEYS: A Citizen Soldier in Croatia, 1994-1995 by Kurt Grant
Fording the Stream of Consciousness by Dubravka Ugrešić
The Heart of Danger by Gerald Seymour
Brothers Popovic by Steven Roberts
A Traveller's History of Croatia by Benjamin Curtis
Stars of the Night Commute by Ana Bozicevic
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Luka; or The Port by Antun Soljan

The Turk and My Mother by Mary Helen Stefaniak

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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulić

The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle by Kurt Held

The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna

Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust by Josip Novakovich

Into Hell's Fire

Douglas wrote: "Into Hell's Fire"

Uhm shouldn't this book be posted in Bosnia and Herzegovina thread? I mean, I haven't read the book, but the blurb states it is set in Sarajevo :/ although it might be partly set in Croatia too!

A Handful of Sand by Marinko Koščec

Girl at War: A Novel by Sara Nović

Zeljka wrote: "Douglas wrote: "Into Hell's Fire"

Uhm shouldn't this book be posted in Bosnia and Herzegovina thread? I mean, I haven't read the book, but the blurb states it is set in Sarajevo :/ although it mig..."


I can only encourage you to read the book to see how much of the book is set in Croatia. I estimate it to be about seventy percent with nearly all ares of the country covered. It will be worth your effort. Bok!

More books set in Croatia:


1941: The Year That Keeps Returning by Slavko Goldstein
Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938-1945 by Imre Rochlitz
The Albanian by Donna Mazza
Apricots from Chernobyl by Josip Novakovich
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić
The Banquet in Blitva by Miroslav Krleža
Belladonna by Daša Drndić
Black hand over Europe by Henri Pozzi
The Brave Adventures of Lapitch by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Chasing a Croatian Girl: A Survivor's Tale by Cody McClain Brown
A Collection of Modern Croatian Verse by Tin Ujević
The Cricket Beneath the Waterfall,: And Other Stories by Miroslav Krleža
Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country by Tony Fabijančić
Croatian Nights: A Festival of Alternative Literature by Tony White
The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays by Dubravka Ugrešić
Dalmatian Soup: Travels in Croatia by Barry French
Dancing With Spies by Michael Hillier
The Dealer And The Dead by Gerald Seymour
The Death of the Little Match Girl by Zoran Ferić
Dubravka by Ivan Gundulić
Every Day, Every Hour by Natasa Dragnic
Farewell Cowboy by Olja Savičević Ivančević
Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich
The First Rule of Swimming by Courtney Angela Brkic
Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream by Dubravka Ugrešić
Hotel Zagorje by Ivana Simić Bodrožić
How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić
Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge
Illyrian Summer by Iris Danbury
In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories by Dubravka Ugrešić
Judita by Marko Marulić
Karaoke Culture by Dubravka Ugrešić
The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr (10th book in Bernard Gunther series)
Last Season's Man by C.K. Stead
Leica Format by Daša Drndić
Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugrešić
Love Lyric And Other Poems Of The Croatian Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology
Marko the Prince: Serbo-Croat Heroic Songs by Anne Elizabeth Pennington
The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić
The Mystery of the Stolen Painting by Ivan Kušan

More books set in Croatia:


Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugrešić
An Olive Tree in Dalmatia by Amelia Batistich
The Only Witness To Beauty by Miro Gavran
Osman by Ivan Gundulić
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišić
Orange girls: Bilingual English Croatian book of poetry by Irena Pušnik
The People We Were Before by Annabelle Thorpe
Port of No Return by Michelle Saftich
S. by Slavenka Drakulić
The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid (3rd book in Inspector Karen Pirie series)
Someone Else's Conflict by Alison Layland
Stillness: And Other Stories by Courtney Angela Brkic
Surfacing: Contemporary Croatian Poetry by Branko Čegec
Tena by Josip Kozarac
Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugrešić
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulić
Thirteenth Night by Alan Gordon (1st book in Fool's Guild series)
Three Deaths by Josip Novakovich
Transatlantic Mail by Miljenko Jergović
Trieste by Daša Drndić
A Trilogy of Dubrovnik by Ivo Vojnović
Two Tickets to Dubrovnik by Angus Kennedy
Uncle Maroje - A Comedy in Five Acts by Marin Držić
The Walnut Mansion by Miljenko Jergović
Winds of Dalmatia: A Historical Novel by Tanja Tuma
Winters in the South by Norbert Gstrein
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius by Marc Seifer
Wonderland by Marinko Koščec
Yolk by Josip Novakovich
Yugoslavian Gigolo by Zoran Drvenkar

The Hotel Tito by Ivana Simić Bodrožić

The Goldsmith's Treasure by August Šenoa

Dear fellow readers and travellers,

Recently published as a Kindle and now picked up by a publisher for release as a print version - but the Kindle is here now, is inexpensive and has links to a huge range of music and video from Croatia and ex-Yugoslavia.

Hvala! B

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How did a song recorded in 1981 by a young multi-racial punk rock band from a ‘stagnating provincial English city’ and released on a tiny independent record label become famous in a Yugoslavia formed in the image of Marshall Tito? Why did it take 30 years before the members of the band found out? How was it that this ‘communist’ country had one of the most vibrant punk-rock scenes in the world? Who were ’Tito’s punks’ and who are they now?

More than three decades later, the author sets out from his home in the Netherlands to follow the journey of the song, through a time and a country that no longer exists. On the way he encounters borders and Brutalism, discovers the world’s first fascist micro-state, sees the legacy of the NATO bombings, the impact of ‘turbo-capitalism’ and the ever-present ghosts of genocides and the Holocaust. But unexpectedly also, the Yugoslavs’ love of British TV sitcoms and Northern Ireland punk, tales of Nirvana and REM, Van Gogh and Vermeer, pirates and Black Wave movies, the Yugoslav story behind the Sound of Music, the embracing warmth of Balkan hospitality and a dizzying stream of rakija.

What emerges is a lesser told, unvarnished but also affectionate portrait of Yugoslavia in the years before its demise through to the present, seen through the unlikely lens of punk and punk rockers. Part travelogue, part history the book is both, and neither, of those things. Rather, it is a mural of that journey.

“We went to sleep in Disneyland, and we woke up in the apocalypse.”

“The socialism was not the problem, the parents were the problem.”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Novak

Hi all, Books are real companion. Always I remember Francis bacon's quotes "Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; writing makes an exact man"
The more you read, the more you learn that's makes you perfect. peryourhealth

Immigrant Daughter: Stories You Never Told Me by Catherine Kapphahn

Wild Woman BY Marina Šur Puhlovski

When Hen Was on Her Way to Market: A Folktale-Inspired Story of Manners and Nursery Rhyme by Irena Stanic Rasin

No-Signal Area by Robert Perišić

Zagreb Noir by Ivan Sršen

Girl at War by Sara Nović

The Walnut Mansion by Miljenko Jergović

Priestess of the Moon BY Milena Benini

*”The Summer I Learnt to Fly” by Jasminka Petrović*

Going to the sea side with her grandmother to visit another grandmother does not sound like the best summer vacation of all time to a 12 year old girl, Sophia – the protagonist of this novel.
Everything happens on an island in the Adriatic Sea – Hvar, where Sophia does not know anyone, and where you do not understand the local dialect or local customs, nor why your grandmother cries when she sees her sister. Although her summer seems to start like a complete disaster and the protagonist at first hides behind books and music and daydreaming hoping the time will pass quicker.
Gradually Sophia discovers that even such a small place can be full of stories and human destinies one can find in novels, that sometimes you can learn more from conversations with your grandmother and cousins that you barely know, than with your best friend. It can also happen that after you spend some time there you wish to come back to that place again.

P. S. Although it is originally in the Serbian language (the main character is a Serb), the entire plot of the novel is set in Croatia.

The Cheesemaker's Daughter

Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović.

Red Water by Jurica Pavičić.

We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day