Title: April Fool's Day
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Soldiers, Young men, Political prisoners, Literature, Political prisoners -- Fiction., Yugoslavia, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, political, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, general, Balkan peninsula, fiction
Places: Yugoslavia, Croatia, Serbia
LC classification: PS3564.O9148 A86 2004