Adios, Cowboy by Olja Savicevic

Adios, Cowboy by Olja Savicevic

A gritty, breakneck debut novel by a popular Croatian writer of the country's ?lost generation."



Dada's life is at a standstill in Zagreb?she's sleeping with a married man, working a dead-end job, and even the parties have started to feel exhausting. So when her sister calls her back home to help with their aging mother, she doesn't hesitate to leave the city behind. But she arrives to find her mother hoarding pills, her sister chain-smoking, her long-dead father's shoes still lined up on the steps, and the cowboy posters of her younger brother Daniel (who threw himself under a train four years ago) still on the walls.



Hoping to free her family from the grip of the past, Dada vows to unravel the mystery of Daniel's final days. This American debut by a poet from Croatia's ?lost generation" explores a beautiful Mediterranean town's darkest alleys: the bars where secrets can be bought, the rooms where bodies can be sold, the plains and streets and houses where blood is shed. By the end of the long summer, the lies, lust, feuds, and frustration will come to a violent and hallucinatory head.

Savicevic, Olja: - Olja Savičevic is a poet and novelist from Split, Croatia. Her first poetry collection, It Will Be Tremendous When I Grow Up, was published in 1988, when she was fourteen. Since then she has published five other books of poems: Eternal Kids (1993); Female Manuscripts (1999); Puzzlerojc (2005); House Rules (2007), winner of the prestigious Croatian award Kiklop; and MAMASAFARI (2012, 2018). She is also the author of a short story collection To Make a Dog Laugh (2006), which won a Croatian prize for the best fiction writer under thirty-five, as well as two novels, Adios, Cowboy (2010) and Night Singer (2016). Both of her novels were awarded the best Croatian novel by the periodical T-portal, while Night Singer also won the Croatian Libar za Vajk (Forever Book) award. Two of Savičevic's short stories have been adapted into short films, while her novel Adios, Cowboy, was adapted for stage. Her work has been included in a number of Croatian and international anthologies, including Best European Fiction 2014 (Dalkey Archive) and Surfacing: Contemporary Croatian Poetry (Harbor Mountain Press, 2014), and it has been translated into more than 20 languages. MAMASAFARI is the first book-length collection of her poetry in English.

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ISBN 13	9781940450490
ISBN 10	1940450497
Title	Adios, Cowboy
Author	Olja Savicevic
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McSweeney's
Year published	2016-03-01
Number of pages	240
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