Kalendar Maja

Many years on, a school class decides to repeat its graduation trip, a boat voyage from Opatija to Zadar. Among these pensioner graduates is the gynaecologist Tihomir Romar, whose life is the backbone of the novel: three boys growing up on Šalata in the Zagreb of the 1950s and 1960s, school and coming of age, important friendships, family tragedies, sex and desire, and a fatal love, the story of Tihomir and Senka from their school days into old age. It is also a novel of Zagreb from mid-century to the present, of outings to Samobor and Sljeme and the slums of Stara Vlaška, with a sea story in which Goli otok, Zrće and Vir look new, and a novel about transience, the fear of ageing and death, and time that reshapes even the past.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

603 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2011 by Profil

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9789533193793 (original)