Sanjao sam slonove

Andrija Sučić, a former soldier who once guarded Croatia's first president, is shot dead outside his house. He had talked too much: about mass graves, murdered civilians and a strange business with elephants. Nobody seems to mind his death except Boško, the son he never acknowledged, who works for the National Security Service and starts digging on his own. His inquiry takes him into the state's criminal underworld, where state prosecutors and men of power rub shoulders with gangsters and with emigrants from Frankfurt. Told by several narrators in three storylines, the novel spans the 1970s to the late 1990s and the dread of the years before, during and after the war.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

255 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, Croatia, 1970s–1990s

First published

2011 by Naklada Ljevak

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9789533034249 (original)