Description:

Booka, 2020. paperback. New. Serbian language, Latin, 20 cm, Croatian literature, The year is 2020-and-let, Croatia is still a member of the European Union, but its economy is on its knees, tourism has collapsed due to overbuilding and an epidemic of typhoid, which has been unverified and blamed on Islamic terrorists. The only bright spot is still the football team, which has success after success. General, veteran and hero of the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, Anto Gavran, known as Cumur, gives an interview in his magnificent house on the Adriatic coast in the town of Briznik on the very day of an important football match between the national teams of Croatia and Serbia. At the same time, after more than thirty years of exile and persistent avoidance of returning to Sarajevo, a successful graphic designer and his architect wife decide to come on vacation to the Adriatic coast for the first time in their jaguar. 

That evening, on the highway that passes through Briznik, an accident occurs, which begins the unfolding of a passionate, unwanted story. Herkul Miljenka Jergovica is a murderous, warning satire against all, especially domestic, nationalism and local fascism. This is a book that is both dark and funny, a book from which the unwilling future of the world jumps out at us. Hercules is a short novel about the danger of any fanaticism and too easy handling of big words, a warning for us here. A novel over which we will cry, laugh and be horrified at the same time.