TheMayaCalendar

The Maya Calendar

Profil International, 2011, 603 pages
40 pages excerpts in English
complete translation in German

Translation rights sold: Germany (Folio Verlag), Bulgaria (Avangard Print)

Considered by many to be Ferić’s best work. A novel of wider scope which incorporates a novel about growing up in Zagreb in the fifties and sixties of the last century, a story about the love between Senka and Tihomir that almost lasts a lifetime and a novel about the sexual revolution in the sixties and the seventies. Ferić covers all aspects of life – happiness, love, sorrow, old age and mortality.

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Zoran Ferić

Anđeo-u-ofsajdu

An Angel In Offside

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Naklada MD, 2000, 174 pages
One short story translated in English
complete translation in German

Translation rights sold: Germany (Folio Verlag), Spain (Baile del sol Ediciones), Ukraine (Folio), Slovenia

Declared as the book of the decade in Croatia while being on bestseller list for more than two years, this extraordinary collection of short stories presents author`s recognizable grotesque world but offering us a more complex and consistent structure.

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Walt Disney’s Mousetrap

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Naklada MD, 1996, 124 pages
one short story available in English
complete translation available in German

Translation rights sold: France (Éditions de l’Éclisse), Germany (Folio Verlag), Poland (Pogranicze Sejny), Ukraine (Lavov), Slovenia (…)

Ten stories in Walt Disney’s Mousetrap present Ferić as a brilliant analyst of stupidity, misconceptions, malice and vulgarity. His revelatory stories hit us right there where it hurts the most and where laughter – freezes.

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The Death Of The Little Match Girl

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Naklada MD, 2003, 198 pages
complete translation available in English, German, Italian

Translation rights sold: France (Editions Noir sur Blanc), USA (Autumn Hill Books), Germany (Folio Verlag), Italy (Nikita Editore), Slovenia (V.B.Z.), Turkey (Dora Basım Yayın)

A “Mediterranean Twin Peaks”, this social novel with a distincive crime-plot powerfuly provokes a deeply entranched bourgeois taste but is also an allegory for the atmosphere in the entire country of the 90s as the war and death find their very unispected and unusual ways to present.

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The Children Of Patras

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Biblioteka Premijera, Jutarnji List, 2005, 188 pages
complete translation in German and Italian

Translation rights sold: Germany (Folio Verlag), Italy (Zandonai editore), Slovenia (V.B.Z.)

This novel, with a well-rounded and compact plot, deals with a provocative theme: the love between a forty year old highschool teacher and an ill seventeen year old schoolgirl. Although the theme is somewhat controversial and the relationship essentially comic, Feric writes about the true love; the kind of “funny” or strange love that transcends boundaries, questions moral laws, constantly mocking the tragic nature of death.

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Alone By The Sea

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VBZ, November, 2015, 341 pages
Excerpt of the novel available in English

Translation rights sold: Germany (Folio Verlag), Serbia (Booka)

Four years after the great literary success of The Maya Calendar Zoran Ferić returns to the scene with the novel that deals with man-woman’s relationships and its peripeteias. But unlike in the voluminous Calendar, here the author doesn’t write the complete life stories of its characters but rather catches them in the key episodes where those lives start to form or refract. The whole is fractured, but the novel is completed and rounded.

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The Travelling Theatre

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VBZ, November, 2020, 476 pages

Translation rights sold: Serbia (Booka)

The Traveling Theatre, the fifth novel by Zoran Ferić, a readers’ favorite and one of the most awarded and acclaimed Croatian authors, is an impressive work, a novel that would mark a grand event in any of the great European literatures

A harbour town on the Adriatic serves as a backdrop for dreams which some people use for business, others for films and a few to make their fortune.

Profil International, 2011, 603 pages
40 pages excerpts in English
complete translation in German

Translation rights sold: Germany (Folio Verlag), Bulgaria (Avangard Print)

Considered by many to be Ferić’s best work. A novel of wider scope which incorporates a novel about growing up in Zagreb in the fifties and sixties of the last century, a story about the love between Senka and Tihomir that almost lasts a lifetime and a novel about the sexual revolution in the sixties and the seventies. Ferić covers all aspects of life – happiness, love, sorrow, old age and mortality.

The former class of a high school in Zagreb will meet after many years to go on a graduation anniversary trip. The “Tramuntana” motor boat is now taking these men and women in their midsixties to the Dalmatian coast for a second time. The main character is Tihomir Romar, a gynaecologist who describes his story in numerous flashbacks. It focuses on his fatal love affair with his former classmate Senka, which takes on almost destructive dimensions and creates hell on earth for three people. With biting irony and black humour, Zoran Ferić draws a picture of the golden youth in Tito’s Yugoslavia; descendants of a new privileged class, more influenced by the new sexual mores of a social revolution. This second trip will reanimate a network of old and oppressed relationships – the forgotten behaviour patterns of adolescence will be coupled with a burgeoning senility. With lightness of touch and piercing wit, Ferić covers all aspects of life – happiness, love, sorrow, old age and mortality.

This novel was honoured with four of the most prestigious Croatian literary awards: the Jutarnji List Award for best work of prose fiction, the Vladimir Nazor Award for literature, the Zagreb City Award and Kiklop Award for best work of prose fiction.

The more you read this book, the more the words are transformed into images from a beautifully eerie film by a late Nouvelle Vague director, a Chabrol or a Truffaut, with an aged Michel Piccoli or a Jeanne Moreau in the leading roles. The scenery is indeed film-ready, although we are not on the Côte d’Azur or in Paris, but in Zagreb and on the Croatian Adriatic.

Sabine Berking
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Throughout the carefully arranged chapters, where the past and the present take turns with nostalgic memory and surgical analytical approach, quantity finds its reason in ambition to fixate the values of a generation and an era.

Zdravko Zima

A novel about growing up (…) a novel about love and its demons (…) a novel about sex, the desire that fulfils and consumes us. A novel of transience, of time that shapes the present and changes the past. A novel of old age and frailty. A novel of Zagreb from the mid-20th century until today. This novel also has its seaside story, where Goli otok, Zrće and Vir get a completely new color.

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