• 07.05.2025.
• Zagreb, HR

New title ‒ „Two Houses above the Sea“

Fresh from print – another title this week, from the pen of our famous sociologist Dražen Lalić.

In the book Two Houses Above the Sea, Dražen Lalić starts from an analysis of historical events and the culture of family memory in Dalmatia, or rather in its two parts. The book devotes much of its time to describing the phenomena and explaining and understanding the conditions of what happened in Dalmatia, Croatia and beyond in the first half of the twentieth century, especially during and after World War II. It is mostly focused on a meaningful treatment of the traumas and psychological burdens of the author's two families in connection with these events and the memories of their descendants in the Makarska Riviera and on the island of Korčula, but also in the USA, Canada and Australia. The author skillfully places all these events of a large number of members of his and their related families in their centuries-old history, some of which are extremely tragic and traumatic, in a sociological, psychological, anthropological and historical context, thus confirming the increasingly prevalent thinking that the so-called „big“ history can best be understood from the elements of „small“ history and from a critical analysis of the ups and downs of individuals and their families in pivotal social and political events.

You can learn more about the book here.