About the Author

Rudan was born and still lives in Opatia, Croatia. Currently she writes for Nacional, Croatia's biggest and best-selling daily newspaper, and runs a real-estate agency. Celia Hawkesworth taught Serbian and Croatian language and literature at the University of London for many years. She now works as a freelance writer and translator. Her long involvement with the language and culture of the region began with her first visit to Zagreb in 1955.

Reviews

Nowadays nobody writes as ferociously as Vedrana Rudan. ---Nada Gasic

Vedrana Rudan's first novel is a picturesque, unpretentious, ironic-satiric narrative, in which the tragic elements are succeeded by comic episodes, and in which a sharp style and vocabulary serve a singular purpose of diagnosing the Croatian reality.