Lovers and Madmen is dominated by two central themes: politics and love. Julienne Busic s memoir takes the reader through the events which shaped her life with Croatian dissident husband, Zvonko assassination attempts, threats from the Yugoslav secret police, flights from country to country, enforced poverty and deprivation and characterizes the love which led to the greatest sacrifice of all: a sentence of life in prison for the political hijacking of a TWA jet. Less than twenty years after that desperate act, Yugoslavia broke apart in a spasm of war and Croatia is now an independent state. The message contained in the leaflets thrown during the hijacking served as a prophecy of this disintegration and the Serbian aggression, first in Croatia and Bosnia, and most recently in Albanian-populated Kosovo. Julienne Busic served thirteen years in prison and was released on parole in 1989.

Lovers & Madmen

Julienne Eden Busic

Gray Sunshine

What is America? For renowned Croatian poet Dubravka Oraic Tolic, it is "what is born from our dreams without our knowing." As Columbus' dream of reaching India was interrupted by the discovery of a new land, we too discover unexpected lands in pursuit of our dreams. These new lands are the reality of our hopeful voyages. American Scream explores the tension between a nation's dream of freedom and the outworking of that dream. "Palindrome Apocalypse" explores the history of the twentieth century, beginning with the October Revolution of 1917 and ending with the bombing of Zagreb in 1991-a shadow of apocalypse. Here the exceptional poem is presented side-by-side with the Croatian so the reader can appreciate the amazing palindromic verse.

American Scream: & Palindrome Apocalypse (New Croatia)

Literature & Fiction

Dubravka Oraic-Tolic

Poetry

Ooligan Press

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