April Fool's Day
Josip Novakovich · 2004
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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.
First sentence: Ivan Dolinar was born on the first of April in 1948.
Book details
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780060583989
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