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Olja
Savičević
's stories are alive with an impulse of irony,
but this anarchy is not abrasive, bitter and subversive
but imaginative and optimistic - by all means closer to
hedonistic joie de vivre than pessimistic fatalism. Vijenac
A
colourful and bold book by a daring, imaginative author.
The boisterous and unbridled style, vibrant with emotion,
is topped off by many a beautiful ending. You put her down,
glowing, and think: Wow! That's what you call literature.
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The Croatian writer
Olja Savičević
enshrouds
our senses with her captivating short stories about breast
cancer, anorexia and enslavement. She does not deliberately
evoke the gravity of these issues, yet they creep into our
consciousness. Suddenly we lost in this mesmerising mist
and cannot escape. Nor do we want to. blond
The young Croatian
writer Olja Savičević
delves into human destinies and worlds with an easy style
and exuberant fantasy. Her stories are neither arbitrary
nor bloodless, and her passionate imagination makes each
of them a unique experience. arte
The slim collection
Making a Dog Laugh is the first book of prose by
the Croatian newcomer Olja Savičević,
and a real discovery. The author gives gentle poetic insights
into a country and a young generation that have been shell-shocked
by the war and take refuge in a world of dreams and altered
states. This is a masterful work - brief and compact, full
of absurd events encapsulated in keenly observed imagery.
Mittelbayerische
Zeitung
Olja Savičević
portrays the generation that grew up in her home town of
Split after the wars in ex-Yugoslavia. She writes with enchanting
ease, yet shadows of the recent past are lurking between
the lines.
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