Alone by the Sea is a prose in which Ferić demonstrates his vast talent in the sense of both idea and form, and develops (without recycling) the main thematic and style peculiarities of his recognizable handwriting. (…) the diagnose is now final – life is a trap! And this book is a great bait that seamlessly, and with enormous reading delight, takes you towards it. And much further
Jagna Pogačnik
Jutarnji list
The novel follows the fate of several (anti)heroes and their numerous feats in a characteristic, Ferić’s own bittersweet manner. But, one could argue that more important than them are the excellent female characters, local girls and tourists, for they are the ones dictating the pace, and the ones in the center of it all.
Booka
Love, sex, and manifold humorous and grotesque situations so recognizably imagined by Ferić, but just as well sorrow, melancholy and eternal wrestle with life that always somehow finds the way to “fuck you up”, all of it stamped by the handwriting of one of the most persuasive and authentic voices in modern Croatian literature.
Moderna vremena
Readers will go into this book relaxed, ready for laughs and adventures of heroes-seagulls, promising of easy sex, easy love, unbearable lightness of being. Some will enjoy the atmosphere of carefree 70-80s, in pictures of their youth and memories of summer love, some will cheer on the story of the legendary seagull, which has captured the glory of Croatian men all over Europe. But there’s more to it.
Alla Tatarenko
University of Lviv
