Žigice

One March a fire breaks out near Split and, fanned by a fierce bora, spreads across Mount Mosor, doing enormous damage to nature and people and killing one man. Inspector Petar Fradelić has to find out who set it. The investigation opens onto a wider picture of society: how political upheavals across generations have shaped families and individuals, and how land, its use and who owns it, decides people's fates. On the surface a crime novel about a Dalmatian wildfire, it is really about everyday complicity, kept silences and collective indifference: one of its central figures, a decent man, good husband and father who loves nature, is pushed by circumstances into an act whose tragic consequences he never wanted and must eventually face.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

285 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2024 by Stilus knjiga

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789533721590 (original)