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Josip Novakovich

Fiction

Winter 1998

Bruno

By Josip Novakovich

1948 Hrastovac, Croatia At Kamenar’s, there was a festivity. Pero Kamenar had just returned from serving in the reserves of the Yugoslav federal army. He had been stationed on the […]

European Voices

Summer 1995

Grandmother’s Tongue

By Josip Novakovich

As a kid in Croatia I learned that I had an American grandmother through eavesdropping on my parents during tax time, when my father—a clogmaker, that is, a “private entrepreneur,” […]