A new Flaubert.
Eleni Anastasopoulou | Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Education
Frustration of helpless “illegals”, faced with state repression on the one side and a criminal milieu on the other, is a difficult subject on which little, if at all, is spoken in the contemporary Croatian prose, which makes this novel an exceptionally welcome guest.
Jutarnji list
(…) what we have is a novel particularly bound to the female, to the destinies of the female sex, but those that are somewhat different, doubly displaced: first – by their geographical background, second – by the fact they are happening in prison, from which they have very limited insight into the current functioning of the outside world. There, the plot doesn’t happen because of some real or hideous crime, but because some people want to reach better life by any means, and because the legal paths are simply not available.
Neven Vulić | Moderna vremena
Novel Harmatan tells a story of people “beyond statistics and annual plans” who represent the absolute surplus of the European population, and in the region of the Balkan route their situation is a synonym for the inevitable dehumanization. Undoubtedly an immensely important book.
Aleksandra Gačić | Vrabec Anarhist
