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" April Fool's Day : "
Josip Novakovich.
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BL
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1029163
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b783533
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| Main Entry
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Novakovich, Josip,1956-
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| Title & Author
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April Fool's Day : : a novel /\ Josip Novakovich.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: HarperCollinsPublishers,, ©2004.
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226 pages :: maps ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0060583975
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: 0060583983
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: 9780060583972
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: 9780060583989
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| Abstract
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"Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts the young Croatian's budding medical career short and lands him in a notorious labor camp. Released on the eve of civil war, Ivan is drafted into the wrong army, becoming a pawn in an absurd conflict in which the rules and loyalties shift abruptly and without warning. But even in a world gone mad, one course of action remains eminently sane: survival. Told with bitingly dark humor and a deep tenderness, April Fool's Day is both a devastating political satire and a razor-sharp parody of war."--Publisher's website.
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Political prisoners, Fiction.
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Soldiers, Fiction.
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Young men, Fiction.
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Political prisoners.
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Soldiers.
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Young men.
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Croatia, Fiction.
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Serbia, Fiction.
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Yugoslavia, Fiction.
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Croatia.
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Serbia.
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Yugoslavia.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3564.O9148A86 2004
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