Vilkovia

Two novellas are set in a literary image of Ruski Krstur, a village in Vojvodina, Serbia, home to a small Rusyn diaspora. The first hero works in a car repair shop and waits passively for something in his life to change; the second is busy with two half-time jobs yet gets nowhere. The publisher frames it as a dystopia about the bitter fate of manly laziness under the boot of emancipation: what chance do good-natured slackers have against tireless saviours, virtuoso women guitarists and seasoned women freight forwarders? Their frustration grows out of an unchanging, apathetic place of irrational traditions, prejudice and poor schools, broken now and then by the fantastic.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

235 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia

First published

2021 by Východoslovenské združenie Valal

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9788097337629 (original)