Zoran Ferić's storytelling in "Children of Patras" is a feast of linguistic and associative inventiveness, constantly sliding along the border between real and possible, true and fabricated.
The novel is set in a turbulent period of 18th-century Croatian history, when the nobility and the bourgeoisie fought for power and influence. The main theme of the novel is the conflict between the nobles and the republicans – people who stood for freedo