Tvoj sin Huckleberry Finn

The narrator, a writer, has come back from Oslo to Brčko and lives on a small boat on the Sava, sailing, writing a little and taking drugs. His father, known as Matori, gravely ill, flies in from Australia to see the son with whom he has always had a tense, complicated relationship. The father buys a bigger but old boat, and the two try to restore it helped by a friend who smuggles on the river. When Matori fails to come back one morning from night fishing, the son goes looking for him, telling as he goes the story of the two of them and of his greatest river adventure: a voyage from Brčko towards the Black Sea with a Norwegian, Petter, and a Japanese friend, Moku. Above all the book is about the river itself, its history, eddies and fish, its harbours and towns.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

336 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

First published

2015 by V.B.Z.

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789533047492 (original)