Who Will Return to Europe?

By KARO HORVAT

Who Will Return to Europe? is a novelette. This is a short historical fiction, divided into ten chapters that do not follow the chronological order of events. Set in the Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Croatia, Argentina and Paraguay. The historical context spans from 1830 to 2022. The sea is the Adriatic. The island is one of more than twelve hundred islands of Croatia. Darko and Petar are two friends who face a lot of challenges together, although Petar is always the underdog. After the failures in Europe, they decide to emigrate to Paraguay to prosper in the New World. Darko is very wise and likes to share his knowledge with Petar. They arrive in Argentina and encounter the yellow fever of 1871. Don Raffaello welcomes them at the Port of Buenos Aires. They all travel to Paraguay to start new ventures there after the end of the Triple Alliance War against Paraguay. Darko marries Ester, a tender and sweet Paraguayan with whom he has seven daughters. Despite having achieved all his goals as a man, Darko is periodically confronted with melancholia (melancholy). That entity will remain in his life, travelling through the years. In the end, his fourth generation, Petra, will make an important decision about it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRN18RDJ
• ISBN13: 9798265942418
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"