Muzej revolucije

August 1995, during Operation Storm. A historian in his fifties is the temporary keeper of the Museum of the Revolution in a small Croatian town, a house that belonged to a wealthy family before the war turned it into a shrine to the partisans. On the empty pages of its book of impressions he writes down the story of himself and his two lifelong friends: Gogo, son of the district's great partisan hero, killed in the war, and Lujo, heir of the industrialist Kraljevac, whose father was shot as an enemy of the people. The three were bound together in 1952 by a brawl at their induction into the Pioneers, fell for the same girl and lived through socialism and its collapse. In the cellar the narrator finds older visitors' books, each rewriting the same history, and asks whether the friendship can survive Yugoslavia's end.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

303 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia, 1952–1995

First published

2012 by Mozaik knjiga

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9789531412421 (original)