Summary
What is a man without a mustache Ante Tomić
Seven kilometers below Poskokova Draga is the rugged Smiljevo, a charming village in the Dalmatian zagora with about two thousand inhabitants, a church, an elementary school, the Bevanda inn (evil tongues say it is called that because you cannot buy undiluted wine there), a post office and two grocery stores. It's spring in Smiljevo and all the employees have gone on sick leave - they collect hay, plow the fields, plant potatoes. On one of those days when the village is quiet, the young rich widow Tatiana, whose husband died on a construction site in Germany, enters the church of the handsome village priest Don Stipan, a former alcoholic, to declare her love for him. At the same time, the rich guest worker Marinko, a "Croatian emigrant" who as a young man was stuck in prison for the song Druža Tito, I will buy you a son, returns to the village from Germany, and a Mercedes. The cute ultra-rightist Stanislav, a writer of haiku poetry and a great admirer of the poet Petar Preradović (who "loved Croatia so much that he didn't mind being a Serb") will fall in love with his daughter Julija. The matter, however, gets complicated when the cheerful widow Tatiana suspects that Julija is meeting her beloved don Stipan.
Anto Tomić's first novel, today an undoubted humorous classic, is full of comic situations, witty dialogues and vivid characters, which make you read without interruption with thunderous laughter.
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