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After thirty years in Germany, where he was a member of a Balkan robbery gang, Josip Ljubas Džop has returned, a man permanently marked by the fact that he indirectly caused the death of his older brother during the war. Returning to Duvno is always more ominous than leaving. Džop would now open a bakery and bake bread from wild yeast, which he learned in one of the German prisons. Nada, Džop's first love, is more troubled than the others: how to face the man who almost destroyed her life? And when Jelena, Nada's closest relative, appears in the hometown of her father Šimun Kolak, who was killed in a political assassination in Munich in the 1980s, spirits will be further stirred. In Wild Yeast, Ivica Đikić masterfully, with a lot of humor and bitterness, revives the atmosphere of a provincial town where everyone knows everyone, and where the past and the present cannot be separated. This novel is a gallery of the characters of our lives: just like in reality, there are no right and wrong, everyone is burdened by their own and common history such that they cannot get rid of it and start new lives, but must wait for the wind to blow that will move them in this or that direction.