Summary
Jurica Pavičić: The Ship in the Yard
"The Ship in the Yard will not only confirm Pavičić's long-established position on the Croatian literary scene, but it is the author's most ambitious and linguistically, stylistically and thematically the bravest and most exciting book. Among contemporary Croatian writers, there is no one who is so accurate and without embellishment, critical and engaged, with an apparently "cold" and objective style, but actually with knowledge and he writes about Dalmatia with exceptional love." -Olja Savičević Ivančević
"Between southern magic and southern melancholy, Pavičić is the strongest in his convincing immersion into the psyche of the protagonist, in whose register happiness, joy or anger irresistibly recede before the "muddy white void."
-Mirjana Jurišić, Večernji list
"Croat, Dalmatian Jurica Pavičić writes excellent stories, with a nice penchant for family melodrama: misunderstanding and adversity in the family, everyday life and war, violence and death, escapes and funerals, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters... It is difficult to distinguish who is the winner and who is the vanquished in everyday life, in war and in peace."
-Goffredo Fofi, weekly Internazionale
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