April Fool's Day: A Novel
Josip Novakovich, "April Fool's Day: A Novel"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0060583983, 0060583975 | 256 pages | MOBI | 0.8 MB
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0060583983, 0060583975 | 256 pages | MOBI | 0.8 MB
Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 – the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts the young Croatian's budding medical career short and lands him in a notorious labor camp. Released on the eve of civil war, Ivan is drafted into the wrong army, becoming a pawn in an absurd conflict in which the rules and loyalties shift abruptly and without warning. But even in a world gone mad, one course of action remains eminently sane: survival.
Told with bitingly dark humor and a deep tenderness, April Fool's Day is both a devastating political satire and a razor-sharp parody of war.