No-Signal Area
  • Published: 28 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809706
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $45.00

No-Signal Area

A Novel

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5 May 2020
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28 Apr 2020
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The second novel by the highly praised post-war Croatian writer.

Oleg and Nikola—hustlers, entrepreneurs, ambassadors of capitalism—have come to the town of N to build an obsolete turbine, never mind why. Enlisting the help of former engineer Sobotka, they reopen the old turbine factory, preaching the gospel of “self-organization” and bringing new life to the depressed post-communist town. But as the project spins out of control, Oleg and Nikola find themselves increasingly entangled with the locals, for whom this return to past prosperity brings bitter reckonings and reunions. At once a savage sendup of our current political moment and a rueful elegy for what might have been, this sprawling novel blends tragedy and comedy in its portrayal of ordinary people wondering where it all went wrong, and whether it could have gone any other way.
  • Published: 28 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809706
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for No-Signal Area

Praise for Our Man in Iraq:
"A must-read... brilliantly captures modern-day Zagreb." --The Guardian
"This is a Croatian novel drawing on Croatian experiences, but it is also a novel about journalists and journalism... Much of Our Man in Iraq rings true to modern life, whether you live in Croatia or Britain."--Tim Judah, contributor to The Economist and The New York Review of Books
"Robert Perišić's Our Man in Iraq chronicles the aftershock of Croatia's postwar "cataclysmic system change," which ushered in capitalism and democracy. The characters' snide remarks could easily sound cynical, but the novel has a levity informed by the sense of social fluidity that comes with democracy. " --The New Yorker