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Black Balloon Publishing
April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
208 pages
ISBN: 1936787059
EAN: 9781936787050
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Fiction Family Life
Saddam is a young villager from the outskirts of Basra,
named after the president. What can he do? He spreads his
hands wide like a scarecrow, and I spread mine too, and we
chat like two scarecrows in the field, except there are no
crops, no grass, and no birds for us to scare away, only
sand and scrap iron, and his village, said Saddam, is in a
bad place. So he stuck all his goats in a pickup truck and
took to the road like Kerouac, except there’s no literature
here, and no shade.
2003: As Croatia lurches from
socialism into globalized capitalism, Toni, a cocky
journalist in Zagreb, struggles to balance his fragile
career, pushy family, and hotheaded girlfriend. But in a
moment of vulnerability he makes a mistake: volunteering his
unhinged Arabic-speaking cousin Boris to report on the Iraq
War. Boris begins filing Gonzo missives from the conflict
zone and Toni decides it is better to secretly rewrite his
cousin’s increasingly incoherent ramblings than face up to
the truth. But when Boris goes missing, Toni’s own sense of
reality—and reliability—begins to unravel.
Our Man
In Iraq, the first of Robert Perisic’s novels to be
translated into English, serves as an unforgettable
introduction to a vibrant voice from Croatia. With his
characteristic humor and insight, Perisic gets to the heart
of life made and remade by war.
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