The Deer Wedding (Paperback)
Penny Simpson
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Add to basketPaperback. Two periods of Croatian history are interwoven in the stories of a sculptor and a student both seeking truths about their parents. Antun belongs to 1941, the time of the first Independent State of Croatia, and Dagmar, 1998, when a second attempt at independence was forged, following the Balkan War of 1992 - 1995. Set in Split, Zagreb and Hvar, the novel explores how a country like Croatia could implode into such violence; how history is still a living (and unspent) force for many and how might it be possible to trace out a future when so much has been broken and destroyed. Can a country torn apart by civil war ever know peace? Was the price paid for independence really worth it? In 1941, artist Antun Fiskovic experiences a sea-change in his fortunes following the revelation of the identity of his real parents, just as occupying forces take over the government of his country. Fifty years later, a young woman called Dagmar Petric begins a search for answers to the suicide of her father, a disgraced journalist in Tito's Jugoslavia. Antun and Dagmar's stories come together in 1998, in a newly independent Croatia. But what happens when the dead come to life?This is the question that haunts both protagonists, a question that is only answered when Antun breaks his silence over the bitter legacy of a wartime killing by Branko Ostojic, a childhood friend and partizani hero, as the sculptor prepares for his retrospective. Set in Split, Zagreb and Hvar in the Forties and the Nineties, sculptor Antun and student Dagmar are separately seeking truths about their parents. The novel explores how a country like Croatia could implode into violence; how history is still a living (and unspent) force for many, and how, when so much has been destroyed, may a future re-emerge. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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The Deer Wedding is a novel set in Croatia, spanning two generations, two brutal wars and the controversial histories of two very special works of art.
In 1941, artist Antun Fiskovic experiences a sea-change in his fortunes following the dramatic revelation of the identity of his real parents, just as occupying forces take over the government of his country. Fifty years later, a young woman called Dagmar Petric tries to solve the mystery surrounding her journalist father''s premature death. Antun and Dagmar''s stories come together in 1998, three years after civil war has torn apart the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Set in Zagreb and late Nineties Hvar - a former tourist paradise now home to wartime refugees - this novel interweaves public and private history to explore violence, family secrets and personal as well as national reconciliation.
Praise for Penny Simpson:
"A sumptuously-detailed and fantastical novel... full of... humour, verve and hallucinatory strangeness."
Clare Morgan, TLS (on The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum)
"Alive... startling and original... quirky, unsentimental... funny... The writing flies off the page."
Tessa Hadley and Meic Stephens, Judges Report, 2007 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition
Penny Simpson is the 2007 winner of the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Her short fiction features in the widely acclaimed Dalkey Archive Press collection, Best European Fiction 2010, prefaced by Zadie Smith. DOGDays, her debut collection of short stories, was published in 2003. She is a Fellow of the Hawthenden International Writers Centre. This is her second novel, following The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum (Alcemi, 2008).
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