• 16.10.2023.
• Zagreb, HR

New title – „The Insect“

The novel The Insect by the Croatian author with an Italian address, Ivan Klarić, has just been published!

After a large part of his family dies in a plane crash, Zvonimir Žagar, a descendant of an Ustaša family that emigrated to Argentina after the Second World War, begins to remember his gloomy childhood and youth in emigration, and then his life in Žablji Dol, the village to which the Žagar family moved when they returned. Growing up among them, the main character realizes that the hatred between him and his family is inevitable. The Insect is characterized by an intercontextual approach to history, in which history is not only perceived as a series of events, but as a factual substrate in which the anecdotal individual is imprinted. His insect, which becomes his dark but necessary alter ego, is not a Kafkaesque insect, he is not an escape from reality but a giant insect that wants to devour his family. 

You can read more about the book here.