Miha Mazzini: 5 books

From Pushcart Prize and Golden Palm winner Miha Mazzini comes the charming and unlikely story of an imitation Mariachi band in 1950s Communist Yugoslavia. When the traveling cinema comes to a Yugoslavian village in 1950, the young men and women are introduced to Mexican melodramas depicting...

In war-ravaged country, an old soldier retreats high to the mountains. He discovers an idyllic valley with only one farm and the ugliest woman he has ever seen living there. His own disgust about her fascinate him and deep and dark impulses taking over surprise him. In the end of this cruel story...

Yugoslavia, 1950: the local communist regime has quarreled with the Soviet Union while being under blockade from the West. The country is isolated, poor, government secret agents in long black leather coats are everywhere, people are disappearing during the night. The novel is set in a small provincial...

This story is based on true events. Governments are not only collecting the information about the citizens, sometimes they are destroying or manipulating them too. Zala gives birth at the local hospital and everything goes well. There is only a small, bureaucratic problem; Zala's file is not on the...

The best ever selling novel from the former Yugoslavia, this is a hilarious, anarchic, irreverent black comedy about national aspirations and wanting things you can't have Egon is an amoral but charismatic writer, living on the breadline in a grim, unnamed communist factory town in Slovenia...