A Brief Excursion and Other Stories

By Antun Šoljan

The novel A Brief Excursion anchors this collection of fiction by one of the most significant postwar Croatian writers. This novel and six stories, including many from Soljan's first book, Traitors, reveal a sensibility both comic and poignant, devoted to questions of identity and solidarity, of how the one and the many conflict and intermingle-issues that were at the center of both political and literary life for Soljan. Whether fixing up a summerhouse on the Istrian coast or confronting prejudice and the past in a tourist town, Soljan's characters are stirred to action by an undefined longing, only to find the stark landscape of self-knowledge and loss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810116359
• ISBN13: 9780810116351
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.8"