Roki Raketa

In the dark forest of post-transition Croatia, where everything is just what it is and nothing is what it seems, two writers have lost their way, one real and one fake, both of them war veterans: Lucijan Lucić, who gave up writing for crime, and Kristijan Mačić, who gave up nothing to take up writing. Between them, as both balm and thorn, slips the dog the book is named after. Roki Raketa, a four-legged patron and ruthless supplier of every kind of material good, will drive the two apart and bring them back together. Set mostly in a Slavonia far from the picture postcards, this fairy-tale novel of wandering, riddles and transformations mixes the real and the unreal, horror and laughter, and digs deep into society, down to reality and its absurdities.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

432 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2014 by Profil

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789533133539 (original)