Summary
Ante Tomić: Hope
"In the beginning it was a shipwreck from which a young man barely got out alive, stranded on the coast of a city known for its patron Saint Margaret, responsible for the miraculous increase in the birth rate." But then other miracles happened here. Donkeys advertised sexual activities, Serbs and Croats shared a bed, Aco Stanković appeared on a fig tree instead of on television... Only Ante Tomić can invent such a hilarious world and make us believe in it as copied from reality. That's why Nada is a novel that gives hope that some unwanted phenomena in society can be turned into humor, that happy endings exist outside of fiction." - Marina Vujčić
"Come on, Ante, hope?! What are you, John Lennon?' - Aleksandar Stanković
"If you are a married man who keeps to himself, don't buy this book." Reading it in one sitting, you won't respond to your wife's requests to unclog the sink, you won't help your child with homework, you'll miss an arranged card game with friends, and in the end, your wife will chase you from the bed to the sofa in the living room for laughing out loud, and you won't fall asleep there either until you've finished reading. If you are a married woman, I warn you that the consequences of the purchase may be even worse for you. Because after the first few pages you'll lock yourself in your bedroom, refuse to cook lunch and dinner for your family, and end up worrying them so much with waves of laughter that your husband will call 911 in desperation. If you belong to the group of singles and singles, you can buy it, but only at your own risk. In that case, be careful not to fall too much in love with her heroes and heroines because it can be dangerous for your future emotional life, just as laughing too loudly can be dangerous because the landlady can fire you for it." – Rajko Grlić
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