Polusan

Zagreb at the end of the 1980s, while a worn-out socialism spends what little it has left. Vjeko Modrić, a law student who keeps putting off his final exams, is an ironic loner and something of an old-fashioned bourgeois boy: a classicist who dismisses rock and the new wave as frivolous but cares about politics and the Croatian question in Yugoslavia, without ever quite catching fire there either. He drifts between casual jobs, a hesitant affair with his girlfriend Branka and his family, among careerists, party apparatchiks and talentless writers, trying with mixed luck to bend circumstances his way. The decade is seen by someone who knows what followed, as a kind of drawn-out coming of age set against the politics of the time.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

558 pages in the original

Set in

Croatia, late 1980s

First published

2009 by Mozaik knjiga

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789531405454 (original)