num_pages: 256
description: Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts the young Croatian's budding medical career short and lands him in a notorious labor camp. Released on the eve of civil war, Ivan is drafted into the wrong army, becoming a pawn in an absurd conflict in which the rules and loyalties shift abruptly and without warning. But even in a world gone mad, one course of action remains eminently sane: survival. Told with bitingly dark humor and a deep tenderness, April Fool's Day is both a devastating political satire and a razor-sharp parody of war.
language: English
title: April Fool's Day
titlecomplete: April Fool's Day
genres: Fiction, Humor, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Canada, European Literature, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 362
publisher: Harper Perennial