A Castle in Romagna
   
By  Igor Štiks
translated from the Croatian by Tomislav Kuzmanovic

$ 12.95 US

0-9754444-0-9, 103 pages, paper

The original work, Dvorac u Romagni, published by Durieux in Zagreb, was awarded the Croatian prize for best first novel in 2000.

In eleven tightly woven chapters that alternate between Renaissance Italy and Tito's Yugoslavia, this novel weaves a double spiral of love, intrigue and betrayal at one and the same time. Here it is Rimini, 1535, and the Croatian island of Rab, 1948, just days after Tito's momentous break with Stalin. Lives and fates are intertwined, history repeats itself, nostalgia for home is bittersweet and undying.

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cover design:Nicole Flores

original in Croatian

Dvorac u Romagni
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Publisher:Durieux