Croatia | Croatian | Short Fiction
June, 2012Buddy lives in a provincial town in Croatia with his elder brother, sister-in-law, and father, whose mind is deteriorating. Buddy's mother died when he was small. Soccer is his big love, and he dreams of becoming a professional player after school. The monotony of family life is interrupted one day when Buddy is approached by an agent from one of the country's big soccer clubs--with an enticing proposition that poses big challenges for Buddy and his family.
Croatia | Croatian | Four-part Short Fiction
January, 2012A musicologist and classical music editor on Zagreb's Third Program, Đurđa Otržan has also written stories, novels, and screenplays, examining an intellectual universe of great breadth. This four-part short story, written during the 1980s and published in 2002, ventures into the Samos of Pythagoras, the Athens of Phidias, the nether world of Rilke's posthumous correspondence with Tsvetaeva, and after these three most still, plunges into the life of a porn writer with aspirations to contribute to Partisan Review.
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