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Ivan Kalda, a photographer from a Zagreb suburb, grows up in a dysfunctional family and in turn becomes a dysfunctional member of the family he tries to start. His youth runs through the mythical seventies, the years of the Croatian Spring and home-grown hippies, of traumatic sexual experiences, friendships, fights and youthful experiments. Kalda tries to look back over his life from its very beginning, through childhood and adolescence to maturity. Just when, at thirty, he ought to settle into a responsible life, he is caught in the net of war, its aftermath and the transition, whose rules he cannot fit. A man on the margins, he reflects the changes Croatian society has gone through over recent decades.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

238 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2007 by OceanMore

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9789537056421 (original)