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In the middle of a deciding match against Hudi Dol, Bartol Bingula, the young hope of the Krapina football club, loses his bearings in a fog that settles over the pitch and vanishes as if the earth had swallowed him. The whole village of Mačkovec turns out to look for him, and the next one too: his fiancée Ruža, his best friend Marso, and the Krapina police under Inspector Dujmović with the tracker dog Tor. His improbable adventure carries this Zagorje lad, who speaks no foreign language, to the far edge of Europe, to Ireland. Built like a screenplay, with dialogue in the Kajkavian dialect and touches of the surreal, the short comic novel takes on emigration and failing to fit in, unemployment, patriarchal roles, technology and language, and medical manipulation in the shape of a male pregnancy.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

175 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2024 by Vuković & Runjić

ISBN

9789532863703 (original)