Fjaka
E-book, Czech
Fjaka
For Europeans, Croatia primarily means the azure sea and summer holidays. However, Aleksandra Wojtaszek spent more than ten years searching for its true face and wrote a book that will both move you and make you laugh, opening the door to a deeper understanding of its regions. Thanks to her knowledge of the language, culture, and local realities, she weaves together the present with history, legends with reality, and daily life with societal traumas in a sensitively balanced narrative. You will find chapters on football, the diversity of local languages and the richness of Balkan swear words, life on the mainland and the Adriatic islands, former presidents, generals, and a peasant king. The author does not shy away from reflections on nationalism and other -isms, delving into Yugoslav pop culture and fantasy, and also explores the history of the former Yugoslavia. Wojtaszek writes about all of this without sentimentality, but with an infectious enthusiasm that is passed on to the reader. The result is a complex and very human book. And what is the mysterious 'fjaka' in the title? It is a Dalmatian expression for a state of mind where one silently gazes into the distance, letting the heat take over. In Dalmatia, fjaka has become a lifestyle—in our book, it is also the key to understanding Croatia.
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Dokořán, s.r.o., Holečkova 9, Praha 5, 15000 Česká republika, 251 560 328, [email protected], [email protected]
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