Jane Perkanova

Early in 1992 in Dubrovnik, Jane Perkanova talks into a cassette recorder for a woman named Pavica, telling her life in the dialect of the Dubrovnik hinterland. Pavica's sister Ana later spends three winters typing up the tapes, adding a few words of her own. Jane is the illegitimate child of an Orthodox priest and a Croatian mother. When she turned thirteen her father, the priest Jovan, appeared and carried her off from her home; he humiliated her and kept her as his sexual slave, and nuns in a Catholic convent abused her too. Presented as a true account and set in the borderland around Dubrovnik and Konavle, her story of one woman's ordeal becomes a tale of horror tied to the war waged on Croatia in the early 1990s.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

218 pages in the original

Genres

War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2010 by Znanje

ISBN

9789531959551 (original)