Svojevrsna

Spring 1991, on the eve of war. Between Lower and Upper Cugovec, a village in Hrvatsko Zagorje, a roadside statue of the Suffering Saviour keeps watch over the peasants. Beba, the smallest piglet in godmother Anka's sty, is no ordinary pig: she can put her thoughts into something close to human speech. Once Anka boasts about her, the doubting villagers start dropping by, and Beba, greeting each one with "And who are you?", soon becomes a real star. Love is in the air: first a strange, secret affair between the hairdresser Ančica and the priest Vjeran, then Beba's own turn, with a Serbian boar. Told in the Zagorje dialect and full of anecdotes and comedy of errors, the novel watches the turning point of 1991 from a pig's-eye view.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

169 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia, 1991

First published

2021 by Vuković & Runjić

ISBN

9789532862799 (original)