num_pages: 215
description: A wild and quixotic novel about real estate, marriage, and obsession. A House in Istria  is a crazily comic novel about a man, his long-suffering wife, and his fixation with buying the abandoned house next door. But, in this Croatian region of Istria, the neighbors frown upon the husband as a Westerner who knows nothing about Balkan history or the area’s deep blood feuds. “Forget that house,” they tell “It’s not for sale.”
language: English
title: A House in Istria: Novel
titlecomplete: A House in Istria: Novel (New Directions Paperbook)
ratings_count: 31
publisher: New Directions