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April Fool's Day A Novel

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ISBN-10: 0060583983

ISBN-13: 9780060583989

Edition: 2004

Authors: Josip Novakovich

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Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts the young Croatian's budding medical career short and lands him in a notorious labor camp. Released on the eve of civil war, Ivan is drafted into the wrong army, becoming a pawn in an absurd conflict in which the rules and loyalties shift abruptly and without warning. But even in a world gone mad, one course of action remains eminently sane: survival. Told with bitingly dark humor and a deep tenderness, April Fool's Day is both a devastating political…    
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Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Josip Novakovich's stories have appeared in many publications, including The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and Ploughshares . He teaches at Pennsylvania State University and lives near State College, Pennsylvania.