Two Cemeteries, Two Graves Hardcover – March 28, 2026

Two Cemeteries, Two Graves unfolds through two parallel narratives that span from the 1990s to 2015, while reaching back to the early twentieth century through memory and inherited trauma. Mladen V., a respected businessman and war veteran, confronts terminal illness, political pressure, and the moral weight of his family’s past, preparing for death with dignity while facing both personal and historical shadows. Ivan S., born into a once‑privileged family skilled at surviving every regime, grows up amid contradictions—public ideology and private belief, wealth and emotional neglect—and though he proves himself in war, peace leaves him lost, trapped in a legacy he never chose. Their lives end in the same way, yet for profoundly different reasons, revealing a broader portrait of Croatian society: its illusions, its silences, and the quiet tragedies of those who carry history within themselves, in a compassionate, unidealized literary work about identity, truth, and the fragile dignity of ordinary people. Read more