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Girl at War
Sara Nović
The Croatia of the war for independence and of the peace that follows it. The map opens in Zagreb in 1991, a ten-year-old's city of air-raid sirens, shelters and a family flat, then runs south to the killing grounds near the Bosnian border and, a decade on, back to the Dalmatian coast where the narrator returns to face what happened.
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The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Miroslav Krleža
After twenty-three years away, the painter Philip Latinowicz returns to the provincial Pannonian town of his childhood in Croatia to confront his illegitimate birth, his estranged mother and his own creative and spiritual crisis. Krleža draws the town and its region from provincial Croatia: the small Catholic town with its square and church, his mother's house and tobacco shop, the flat muddy Pannonian plain, and the decadent manor world into which the fatal Bobočka draws him.
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