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Nekoliko dana kolovoza

“A Few Days in August” (title translated by AI)

Mirjana Dugandžija (born 1960)

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Four interwoven stories make up one woman's life. A bourgeois family from socialist times grows old in a new state with a changed national identity. In middle age, after a wearing marriage, she begins an affair with a married man. In a dysfunctional newsroom she tries to survive as a journalist in a trade meant to serve those in power. And she goes looking for aunts and uncles nobody remembers.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
207 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Croatia
First published
2010 by Europapress holding; Novi Liber
Author's age
50 when first published
ISBN

9789533002187 (original)