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Author:\u00a0Olja Savi\u010devi\u0107<\/a>, Translated by Celia Hawkeworth<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-1-908236-395<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Farewell, Cowboy’ is a tough yet poetic novel by one of Croatia’s best known writers. The story is rich in local colour and sentiment, following\u00a0the main character, Dada, who returns to her home town on the Adriatic coast in order to unravel the mystery of her brother Daniel’s death. Daniel,\u00a0although\u00a0young, smart and popular, threw himself under a train in mysterious circumstances a few years earlier. In\u00a0her\u00a0search for clues, Dada meets an array of eccentric characters and\u00a0succumbs to the charms of\u00a0the young gigolo Angelo, who is a part of a film crew shooting a Western on the nearby \u2018prairie’. Slowly and painfully she discovers all there is to know about her brother’s death, and how Angelo was caught up\u00a0in it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In her debut novel, Savi\u010devi\u0107 playfully transposes the genre of a traditional Western drama onto the contemporary world, challenging the omnipotent heroes of childhood and questioning what constitutes heroism today. Her shabby seaside hometown provides the perfect backdrop for this tale of loss and redemption,\u00a0redolent of transient glamour and unrealised small-town dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Savi\u010devi\u0107\u2019s prose, which is always relaxed and descriptive, and sustained with conversational ease, becomes increasingly beautiful in moments of high drama….The humour and sheer anarchy of the action combined with the comic exasperation, unforgettable characters and Dada\u2019s wry acceptance of the way life happens to be, make this subversively appealing novel all the more profound; even, unexpectedly, beautiful.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eileen Battersby,\u00a0The Irish Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dazzling, funny and deadly serious, this perfectly pitched novel about the legacy of the Yugoslav war heralds the arrival of an exciting new European voice.<\/em>….Savi\u010devi\u0107 has a rare ability to speak of the deadly serious with a hedonistic lightness that lures you into a spirit of abandon, only to go on to deliver breathtaking blows of insight.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kapka Kassabova,\u00a0The Guardian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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”Savi\u010devi\u0107 continually surprises with the originality and energy of her prose, translated skillfully by Celia Hawkesworth. Images are revisited, lines repeated, like refrains, throughout the novel, creating a very dynamic and original flow. Tragedy lurks in these pages, but what could be a dismal heartbreaking tale is lifted with humour and thoughtful asides. And that is the sense that lingers.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Review: A Little Radiance,\u00a0Roughghosts Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Author Olja Savicevic is an award-winning poet, novelist and short-story writer, and one of Croatia\u2019s best-known authors. \u00a0In Celia Hawkesworth\u2019s fine translation, her anarchic modern voice leaps off the page.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alison Burns,\u00a0Bookoxygen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author:\u00a0Olja Savi\u010devi\u0107, Translated by Celia Hawkeworth ISBN: 978-1-908236-395 ‘Farewell, Cowboy’ is a tough yet poetic novel by one of Croatia’s best known writers. The story is rich in local colour and sentiment, following\u00a0the main character, Dada, who returns to her home town on the Adriatic coast in order to unravel the mystery of her brother …<\/p>\n

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