Stranka

Fresh from his economics degree, a young man joins the ruling party and sits day after day in the corridor of its headquarters, hoping to be noticed. Morally stunted and intellectually limited but megalomaniac in his ambition, he catches the eye of the Chief Secretary and becomes one of countless assistants to the head of sport, in a building so crammed with desks that people must crawl beneath them. The party has no ideology, only the will to stay in power, and nobody in it has a name, only a function: Mayor, Secretary, President. Servile and unscrupulous, the narrator climbs from post to post amid cocaine, drink and contempt for women, falls for a secretary while having to marry the wife the party picks for him, and receives visits from a strange man who lives on an island with rules of its own.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

321 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2019 by Sandorf

ISBN

9789533511566 (original)