Konzor, 2011, 218 pages
Doggiestyle, a collection of urban short stories, is filled with naturalistic details. In a dynamic rhythm, the stories from this debutant book dive into places of intimacy, portray male friendships and wartime and post-war chaos in which both the body and soul get damaged. These stories take gory news headlines and form their plots around them. This is all done with a constantly present dark sense of humour and on a familiar social, war-time and transitional background.
In a thematically diverse way, the author talks about male-female relations (memorable dialogues), friendships and acquaintances, the situation after the war but also about the everyday life in a city neighbourhood. On the covers we will also find a list of two potential soundtracks for this book.
Fraktura, 2014, 176 pages
four stories available in English
There Are No Elephants in Mexico is a collection of short stories with beguiling dialogues and brilliantly weird characters that once again confirms Zoran Pilić is one of Croatia’s wittiest authors. Without a doubt, these stories will make us laugh but they’ll also subtly lead us to the other, dark side which can’t be seen from Earth and where we rarely dare to set our foot on.
Profil International, 2011, 374 pages
20-pages excerpt available in English
A dynamic plot, idiosyncratic characters and a book with a completely different feel to it, give us the right to assume that the Coen brothers’ cinematic characters have seemingly relocated to the pages of this book.
Profil International, 2009, 273 pages
This is a story of three friends who are all pushing their forties. They are childish, egocentric, narcissistic, irresponsible and sometimes even ruthlessly selfish. They’ve left behind them, in sum, one failed marriage and a ton of failed relationships. All in all, they are in the middle of a serious mid-life crisis.
