An English woman moves with her two children into a blue house in Croatia in the first chapter of The Hired Man. She hires a neighbor called Duro to do handyman work, helping fix up the house, to make it into a nice vacation home. Duro has two dogs and a bunch of guns, and there is something not right in the town of Gost. So here is where a background understanding of the ethnic/religious conflict in the former Yugoslavia would have been beneficial to me. The jokesters in the audience will say “What? But Jenny! You love genocide!” and that’s…
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