Overview
Mijo, a soldier in the Nazi-allied Ustasa force, has returned to his village at the end of the war. He's hiding in a hole in the woods, watching as the soldiers who want him dead return again and again to his house, disturbing his wife and children at all times of the day. If he can just wait them out, the atrocities of the war and his involvement in it will be forgotten, and then he can have what he really wants: a quiet life farming his land with his family. Or so he naively believes. How did Mijo become the monster we encounter in these pages? Damir Karakas, a war reporter who witnessed the horrors of the breakup of Yugoslavia firsthand, examines the recent history of an unsettled region in evocative prose, contrasting the beauty of nature against the failings of people.
Full Product Details
Author: Damir Karakas ,
Ellen Elias-Bursac
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Imprint: Two Lines Press
Dimensions:
Width: 11.20cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 17.50cm
Weight: 0.113kg
ISBN: 9781949641660
ISBN 10: 194964166
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Celebration is a masterpiece of Karakas's work to date, an event in Croatian modern literature."" --Vijenac ""A book of the year for many Croatian critics, it is one that cries out for translation into other languages."" --Jonathan Bousfield, Satellite Review ""The reader's hair will frequently stand on end from pure aesthetic thrill."" --Miljenko Jergovic, author of Kin ""A novel of profound meaning and essential literary beauty."" --Večernji ""A dark, intoxicating read by a literary wizard."" --Novi ""Karakas's prose is as deadly as a swarm of wasps."" --Mica Vujičic, Nin"
Author Information
Damir Karakas was born in 1967 in the village of Plascica, Lika, a Croatian region known for strong, winters, wolves and world inventor Nikola Tesla. For a few years he worked in Zagreb and Split as a journalist, reporting from the front lines of the war in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, then from 2001 through 2007 he lived in Bordeaux and Paris, where he supported himself by playing the accordion. Karakas is one of the most respected writers in Croatia and the former Yugoslavia, winner of prestigious domestic and international literary awards. He has published seven novels, three short story collections, and a travelog. His novels have been translated into ten languages, including the first translation of a work of Croatian literature into Arabic. The movie of Celebration is currently being filmed by director Bruno Ankovic under the mentorship of the Polish Oscar winner Pawel Pawlikowski, and will debut in 2024. He is the father of three daughters and currently lives in Zagreb. Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction from the Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian. In 2006 the novel Götz and Meyer by David Albahari in her translation from the Serbian was given the National Translation Award. She is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.
