I wrote two novels which still aren't published:
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The Song of Earth (2026)
 

Genre: Novel
Length: 250 pages
Setting: Northern Croatia, the Mediterranean coast, and the Dinaric Karst
 

The Dinaric Karst is the true protagonist of The Song of the Earth. It is a landscape that appears harsh, barren, and inhospitable, yet people have lived, worked, built homes, and died there for thousands of years.

More than fifty years ago, Lena, the novel’s protagonist, found a new home in this rugged region. She arrived as a foreigner in a country that was then called Yugoslavia and is now Croatia. She stayed, built a life, and witnessed decades of change, while the seemingly barren mountains surrounding the valley remained the only constant presence. Eventually, she withdrew into a small house on the margins of society. Like the karst itself, her life bears the scars of the traumas of the last century. She married and lost her husband, gave birth to a son and lost him as well, and never fully became part of the village where she spent most of her life. Nor did she ever return to the Black Forest village she had left behind in her youth.

Now, at almost seventy-three years of age, Lena has one final goal: she wants to read her life and write it down. Yet this proves to be no simple task. To help her, she is joined by a series of imaginary companions—writers whose books she happens to be reading. They materialize in her small house, accompany her on walks through the karst landscape, and assist her in composing the final book of her life, a story inseparable from the land itself.

Among them is Kamilo Orešković, the celebrated Balkan writer who remains an outsider in his own country and whose work confronts the wounds of not belonging in a fractured world. There is Andrew Macmartin, the English author who has wandered countless unknown paths, climbed mountains, and crossed forests, reading landscapes as if they were poetry and translating what he finds into language. Ellen Godfrey, an expert on birds of prey, teaches Lena what the griffon vultures might reveal about life if only she were willing to listen. David Morrison, the Scottish poet, discovers the sacred within the ordinary and fleeting. And there is Matthieu Illard, the tireless traveler who once crossed the Balkans in a breathtaking journey and can recount both its beauty and its darkness in a single uninterrupted sentence—a vast composition reminiscent of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth).

As Lena listens to their voices and begins to read nature itself as a text, she gradually comes to understand her own life more deeply. Each narrator offers a different way of seeing the world, helping her to shape her story and confront her memories. Or perhaps, in the end, it is the writers themselves who write her story for her.

The Song of the Earth is a novel about reading the world: reading the karst, reading nature, and reading a life. It explores survival in a landscape that appears unforgiving at first glance but reveals extraordinary beauty and richness to those willing to venture into it. It is a story of solitude and uprootedness, of grief and loss, and of deeply personal experiences that become inscribed into a human life just as they are inscribed into the stone of the karst itself.

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​Before: 

BODULI (2012)

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Genre: Novel
Length: 200 pages
Setting: Vrbnik, Island Krk

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