Drama. Southeast European Studies. Translated from the Croatian by Branko Ozbolt. Peter, army captain, enters his flat in Pula and finds it empty: his wife Ana, a Croat, has run away to Dalmatia with their children. By now Slovenia and Croatia have declared independence and the Army is retreating from Sloveniaafter a failed invasion. Peter, a Serb, continues to serve in the federal navystationed in Croatia. Extremely desperate, contemplating suicide, he calls hisfriend Mario, also a YU captain, a Croat who has just quit the Army. "A tragic dialogue with no escape, like a duel to the death, on the absurdity of conflict and war"--Andrea Camilleri.

Author City: Pula CRO

Drazan Gunjaca was born on October 7, 1958, in Sinj, where he completed his elementary education. He attended the Naval Academy in Split and spent ten years wearing the uniform of the Yugoslav Navy. In the meantime he graduated from Law School in Rijeka and discharged himself from the Navy. During the last ten or more years he has built a successful legal practice in Pula. The anti-war novel Balkan Farewells saw its second edition soon after it was first published in 2001, and it has been translated into several languages and published in Germany, Australia, USA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Italy.

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