No-Signal Area
- Authors
- Perisic, Robert
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Tags
- eastern europe;books about croatia;corruption;21st century;best translated books;balkan fiction;balkan novel;fiction about balkans;novels about war;uncut gems;croatian novel;slavic novel;slavic;croatian fiction;slavic fiction;capitalism;socialism;global capitalism;post-soviet;william gibson;world literature;globalization;art world;arms dealers;yugoslav wars;yugoslavia;translation;literary fiction;small town;book club recommendations;book club books;novels;fiction;top books;fiction books
- Date
- 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.28 MB
- Lang
- en
Oleg and Nikola--hustlers, entrepreneurs, ambassadors of capitalism--have come to the town of N to build an obsolete turbine, never mind why. Enlisting the help of former engineer Sobotka, they reopen the old turbine factory, preaching the gospel of “self-organization” and bringing new life to the depressed post-communist town. But as the project spins out of control, Oleg and Nikola find themselves increasingly entangled with the locals, for whom this return to past prosperity brings bitter reckonings and reunions. At once a savage sendup of our current political moment and a rueful elegy for what might have been, this sprawling novel blends tragedy and comedy in its portrayal of ordinary people wondering where it all went wrong, and whether it could have gone any other way.