"In a Croatian village near the Serbian border, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs. The promised delivery never came, and the village was overrun. Eighteen years later, a body is unearthed from a field, and with it the identity of the arms dealer who betrayed them. Now the villagers can plot their revenge. For Harvey Gillott, now living in leafy...

"Winner of the Prix Ulysse for best debut novel in France Winner in Croatia and the Balkan region of the Koievo Pero Award, the Josip and Ivan Kozarac Award, and the Kiklop Award for the best work of fiction. 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, her mother, and older brother. She is sent to a seaside vacation to...

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...

"I've always been drawn to heiress Avery Monroe, but I've also known how completely off-limits she is! We haven't spoken since I rejected her kiss three years ago. Now, her brother's meddling means Avery's spending the summer with me at my castle in Croatia. I promised to protect her, but uncovering Avery's secret battles, I can't keep my true feelings hidden. Will our passion finally be unlocked?"--back cover.

A woman searching for a different future. A man desperate to escape his past. Can they find what they are looking for on the beautiful island of Korcula? Antonia Butler is on the brink of a life-changing decision and a job advert looking for a multilingual housekeeper at a beautifully renovated Croatian farmhouse, Vila Maslina, is one she can't ignore. Arriving on the tiny picturesque island of Korcula, Antonia feels a spark of hope for the first...

Upalne lato, bezkres chorwackiego nieba, beztroska, plaża i morze - tak wygląda raj, do którego przyjeżdżają na wakacje Daria z Markiem. Mieli mieć czas tylko dla siebie i syna, ale na miejscu poznają Szwedów: Johana i jego dużo młodszą seksowną żonę Verę. W dodatku Marek dostaje nagłą lukratywną propozycję zawodową i pogrąża się w pracy. W tym czasie Daria zbliża się do nowo poznanych ludzi. I z dnia na dzień jest nimi...

"The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the sight 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. In this city without a name, fences in schoolyards separate the children of Serbs from those of Croats, and city leaders...