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The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers.

Dramatičan, snažan i tragičan roman započinje scenom u zatvoru. Novinarka Nora Kirin dolazi u neimenovani slavonski gradić sa zadatkom da napiše reportažu o srednjoškolskoj profesorici, koja je skupa sa svojim maloljetnim ljubavnikom, bivšim učenikom, ubila supruga. Intrigantna, mučna...

When the Croatian War of Independence breaks out in her hometown of Vukovar in the summer of 1991, she is nine years old, nestled within the embrace of family with her father, mother, and older brother. She is sent on a seaside vacation to be far from the hostilities. Meanwhile, her father has disappeared while fighting with the Croatian forces. By the time she returns at summer's end, everything has changed.