Can one write after Auschwitz, Adorno wondered, and this novel might be Gunjaca’s answer to that question: we can and we have to, because in these times betrayed by human history, witnessing is necessary in order to offer some kind of future to betrayed people and humiliated humanity. For as mich as this may sound paradoxical, this novel is about hope, about people’s unbreakable faith in Good that cannot be destroyed even by the blackest evil.
Mr.sc.Srdja Orbanic
was born on 7th October 1958 in Sinj where he completed his elementary education. He attended the Naval Academy in Split and spent ten years wearing the uniform of the Yugoslav Navy. In the meantime he graduated from Law School in Rijeka and discharged himself from the Navy. During the last ten or more years he has built a successful legal practice in Pula