Drago Glamuzina - Three

Three

Profil International, 2008, 249 pages
18-pages excerpt available in English
complete German translation

Translation rights sold: Bulgaria (Hermes), Serbia (Rende), Macedonia (Makedonska reč), Slovenia (Beletrina)

For months Three topped the “most read” books lists in Croatia and it won the T-Portal Novel of the Year Award, one of the most prestigious fiction prizes in Croatia. Written in a style manner of Raymond Carver, with a subtle influence of Milan Kundera, this masterful novel about one-but-every love triangle gives us a fascinating and complex portrait of the love demon, the world whose beauty one can`t measure with black and white morality but rather feel under the pulse of the beating heart. 

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Drago Glamuzina

Drago Glamuzina|Titles – The Second Law of Thermodynamics

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

By

V.B.Z., 2021, 162 pages

Translation rights sold: Bosnia & Herzegovina (Buybook), North Macedonia (Goten Publishing)

The Second Law of Thermodynamics follows a group of writers and their friends, gathered at a dinner party in honor of the special guest, the celebrated American author Jonathan Franzen. In the course of the tumultuous evening, each of them has to share an intimate story, something personal and traumatic never told anyone.

Everest

Everest

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Fraktura, 2016, 96 pages
selection of poems available in English

Translation rights sold: Macedonia (Makedonika litera), Slovenia (Apokalipsa)

Drago Glamuzina writes about people who still feel, pay the price for each pleasure, suffer, but also live and yearn for the Other. They are the people whose life does not end in the moment when all the computers and smartphones are turned off. They continue to search for that elusive thing which still, like a never lost experience, offers the mystery of non-repeatability.

Drago Glamuzina – Butchers

Butchers

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Naklada MD, 2001, 64 pages
English translation available

Translation rights sold: Germany (Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt, 2008.), Macedonia (Makedonska reč, Skopje, 2008.), Slovenia (Litera, Maribor, 2001), Serbia (Naklada Profil, Belgrade 2008.)

This collection of poems presents the reader with that part of male-female relations we could, in line with the title of the collection, without hesitation call butchering, a mutual tattoo, a fight for the right of the voice of the Other.
This is a narrative poetry that will appeal to the readers of Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Anais Nin or Raymond Carver.

Profil International, 2008, 249 pages
18-pages excerpt available in English
complete German translation

Translation rights sold: Bulgaria (Hermes), Serbia (Rende), Macedonia (Makedonska reč), Slovenia (Beletrina)

For months Three topped the “most read” books lists in Croatia and it won the T-Portal Novel of the Year Award, one of the most prestigious fiction prizes in Croatia. Written in a style manner of Raymond Carver, with a subtle influence of Milan Kundera, this masterful novel about one-but-every love triangle gives us a fascinating and complex portrait of the love demon, the world whose beauty one can`t measure with black and white morality but rather feel under the pulse of the beating heart. 

Three is a love novel in which jealousy is most talked over. The center of the novel are three characters in a love triangle – Goran, a journalist and a writer, his wife Sandra, and his lover Hana. Goran and Sandra have lived together since college and they share an open and tolerant relationship in which it is allowed to go out with other people. They feel that no one can be forced to stay with someone else and that this trust and understanding they share are exactly what separates them from others. This is what makes their lives better, this is what is so difficult to find and create, and they are convinced that because of all this their relationship will endure everything. And it really has been so. For years. But, when Goran meets Hana, everything starts to change. Hana is passionate, wild, strange, and is neither wise nor tolerant. No, she is jealous, and her love destructive. Yet, Goran cannot resist her. Drawn into that vortex, soon he too becomes jealous and possessive, something he fought against his whole life. Hana wants to drive out of their life everything but the two of them, and everything starts getting in the way, both friends, work… and what once was love now turns into possessive obsession.

Three is one of the best novels published in Croatia in the past decade and a half.

Damir Radić | Croatian Radio 3

Everything in this novel is open, from its structure to the relationship between characters; everything here is high in intensity and does not tolerate to be read in intervals, but “in one sitting.”

Jagna Pogačnik | Jutarnji list

Unforgiving, forensically detailed dissection of passion, jealousy, infidelity and faithfulness is impressive and does not let to be forgotten.

Jadranka Pintarić | Vijenac

 

By identifying writing as a creative act and amatory spice, Glamuzina reminds of Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet.

Zdravko Zima | Novi List

This is a novel about lovers who are never just a couple in love – in fact they are always an un-couple. There is always a third person, a third wheel, and everyone is neither first, nor second but a little bit of the third. Glamuzina writes a layered, dynamic story of love that’s everything but routine. Three is a novel without compromise, a story to be remembered, a true provocation.

Robert Perišić | A Writer

The world in this novel, although seemingly rough and unpleasant, draws us with its incredible power because it offers a journey through a spiritual landscape not many have experienced. And intriguing story about love and torture, jealousy and gentleness, obsession and tolerance from which, through the splinters of souls, elementary humanity radiates. I can’t remember if we have ever read such a difficult story with so much ease.

Zoran Ferić | A Writer