Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Zagreb Noir
    Unavailable
    Zagreb Noir
    Unavailable
    Zagreb Noir
    Ebook316 pages2 hours

    Zagreb Noir

    By Akashic Books

    4.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

  • All but two of the stories are written in Croatian and translated to English.
  • The Croatian cultural bureau is actively helping promote the book, including funding for the editor to travel to US for promotion.
  • Brand-new stories by: Ivan Vidic, Josip Novakovich, Andrea Žigic-Dolenec, Robert Perišic, Mima Simic, Pero Kavesic, Nada Gašic, Zoran Pilic, Ružica Gašperov, Darko Milošic, Nora Verde, Ivan Sršen, Neven Ušumovic, and Darko Macan.
  • Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative publications. Major radio and television push.
  • Akashic's promotion will have a strong social media component
  • Promote to general crime-fiction and literary audiences, but also to Croatian and Eastern European-themed venues.
  • Giveaways on Goodreads, LibraryThing, and through Advance Access.
  • Galleys (and e-galleys via Edelweiss) available 4-6 months in advance of publication.
  • Nomination to mystery & short story awards.
  • Displays, giveaways at select mystery conferences (Bouchercon, NoirCon, etc.)
  • Focused outreach to mystery publications, mystery stores, travel stores, and book clubs.
  • Publication month website features on AkashicBooks.com from the editor and select contributors.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkashic Books
    Release dateOct 12, 2015
    ISBN9781617754234
    Unavailable
    Zagreb Noir

    Related to Zagreb Noir

    Related ebooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Flaming Hair of Fate

      May 31, 2018

      The Flaming Hair of Fate
      13 min read

    • Article

      Lessons in Oppression

      Jul 1, 2022

      Apart from those few who managed to escape from totalitarian regimes and occupied countries, most North Americans know as little about living under a dictatorship and/or in an occupied territory and what that entails as I do. For the past two decades

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Anarchic Interlude

      Oct 21, 2021

      The Anarchic Interlude
      18 min read

    • Article

      Lessons in Oppression

      Jun 27, 2022

      Apart from those few who managed to escape from totalitarian regimes and occupied countries, most North Americans know as little about living under a dictatorship and/or in an occupied territory and what that entails as I do. For the past two decades

      8 min read

    • Article

      Caught On Film, A Precious ‘Three Minutes’ In 1938 Jewish Poland

      Sep 20, 2022

      Thirteen years ago, writer Glenn Kurtz discovered in Palm Beach, Florida, a roll of previously unseen 16 mm footage shot by his deceased grandfather, David Kurtz. The reel turned out to contain three minutes of rare color film of a predominantly Jewi

      2 min read

    • Article

      Autumn in Moscow

      Nov 27, 2022

      Autumn in Moscow
      7 min read

    • Article

      Ukraine Is The World’s Crucible

      Apr 16, 2022

      Ukraine Is The World’s Crucible
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Corridor Stories

      Sep 1, 2022

      The Corridor Stories
      5 min read

    • Article

      Dress Rehearsal

      Apr 1, 2022

      Dress Rehearsal
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Ayad Akhtar

      Dec 17, 2020

      At the end of her necessary account is an articulation that sums up not only the dilemmas of our age, but of storytelling as a means of making sense of these momentous times: she admits to looking for stories where she should have been seeing a syste

      7 min read

    • Article

      We Start Over but We Are Safe

      Mar 24, 2022

      There have been several missile hits in our neighborhood and just up the hill from us where our kids' medical clinic sits. The appetite of the beast has yet to be sated. The post We Start Over but We Are Safe appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    Reviews for Zagreb Noir

    4.5/5

    16 ratings8 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Noir to the max. This is an excellent addition to the Akashic Noir series. The dark stories are set in a unique city. None is more unique than Zagreb, which has been out of sight and out of mind to the West for a very long time. Pour a glass of Rakia and enjoy.
    • 4/5
      A uniformly excellent collection of 14 gritty hard-hitting stories from the bowels of Zagreb. As with the only other Akashic Noir series book I've read so far, Chicago Noir: The Classics, the term noir is applied as a sort of all-encompassing generic term, apparently not meant to be exclusive. The stories here vary in flavors including dark realism, neo-punk, and confessional Bukowskiesque lit. They're unified by a sense of gloominess, despair and a sense of loss and confusion in the decades following the dissolution of Yugoslavia and Croatian independence. If this is the quality to be expected from this new generation of Croat writers, then I'll be looking forward to reading much more. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      How do you review a book of short stories? I'm not sure, but here goes. It has been a week since I read this book, I wanted to see if the stories stayed with me or if I would forget them. The stories stayed fresh as if I had just read them. To me, that means the editor has done a remarkable job of choosing the right stories. All the stories have one thing in common, they are dark, and they are about everyday people in the city of Zagreb. Each stories represent a neighborhood of Zagreb.This is the first of the Akashic Noir that I have read. I enjoyed this book, I loved the setting and will read the others in the Eastern Europe series.
    • 5/5
      This collection is excellent. Other Akashic Noir books such as Pittsburgh Noir seem often to be puerile, unprofessional efforts of perhaps a Writers' Club. Not this one. How is it possible to have so many talented writers in such a limited area?!! Although these stories may not be designed to do so, each one teased me with tremors of deeper truths beyond the engrossing story line. I especially enjoyed Night Vision by Pero Kvesic, which seemed almost to be a fairy tale. The protagonist faces challenge after challenge on his quest. Living by his wits and sheer luck or coincidence, he survives. Is this then, life in the aftermath of years of devastating war? Isak Dinisen's tales would not reveal all their treasures to me either. I dream of seeing these Noir stories in FILM. Then I might be guided to a fuller understanding.
    • 5/5
      The Akashic Noir series is a favorite of mine and this addition is one of the best I've read since Tehran Noir. I don't think there is a bad or even mediocre story in the collection. There's a depth to each story that makes you catch your breath, close the book, and stop and think before moving on to the next. Knowing only a little of the history of this area of Eastern Europe, it also makes me want to educate myself more about its past. These stories reflect its complexity. The stories are dark (to be expected from a noir series), but with glimpses of hope.
    • 5/5
      I like my stories short and I like my stories dark so the Akashic Noir series is right up my alley. Having now read 56 volumes in the series I think it's safe to say I'm probably not going to find one that doesn't do it for me. That is not to say that some aren't better than others and Zagreb Noir is one of the very best so far.Like other Eastern European entries(Moscow and St Petersburg come to mind) there is a special darkness to these tales - a grim humor - maybe an after effect of their communist past.Like many of the international books in the series the best stories are ones that wouldn't/couldn't be written by an American author. Crossbar by Josip Novakovich revolves around a soccer riot gone terribly wrong and is just wonderfully told.I've complained in the past about the translations in some of the foreign books, but that is not a problem here. All of these read very natural.Overall a great entry into an equally great series.
    • 5/5
      First, a confession: I have been living under a rock. This was not apparent to me until I read the front matter in Zagreb Noir, which listed nearly 100 other titles in Akashic Books' noir series. Now that I have experienced this member of the series, I am eager to make up for lost time.Editor Ivan Srsen extends the idea of the noir to encompass tales of gangs, refugees, and a range of other groups and people during the days surrounding the Bosnian War. The war is long over (if any war can be said to be truly over), and the setting of Zagreb, Croatia's capital city, manages to be familiar, exotic, and alien all at the same time. Contemporary Zagreb has come into its own as a culturally rich cosmopolitan city of about a million inhabitants. But its history, before, during, and after the war, covers an arc of time between the imposed order of socialism (in Tito's Yugoslavia), and the sectarian chaos and violence following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Imagine, for yourself, the particular stories haunting those years – the unease you feel about your new neighbors, the vengeance you feel compelled to suppress, the atrocities you fight to forget. And couple that with the everyday struggle to thrive in a modern city, especially one with Zagreb's history. Readers won't find a lot of that contemporary charm in the stories contained in this volume. In keeping with its noir label, the authors in Zagreb Noir present marginal characters (in the sense that their lives occur outside of press accounts and tourist brochures). Readers will find many links to the noir tradition, and even specific allusions to classic noir literature. For example, the first story, "A Girl in the Garage," brings to mind Poe's classic "The Cask of Amontillado," not to mention his "The Black Cat," and "The Tell-Tale Heart." Other stories summon the mystery and fear associated with the strangers in our midst, sharpened by the brutality of memory – and these stories extend the noir genre beyond what American readers recognize as "hardboiled" to reclaim its true territory: everyday people caught up in extraordinary and threatening circumstances not of their making but of their unmaking. Think Hitchcock having a drink with Chandler, Hammet, and Cain. Personally, I found no stories in this volume that didn't catch and carry my interest. That's a testament to the craft and skill of the storytellers at work here. It's also a mark of excellence for the editor of this volume, and for the publisher who brings this work to the public. I look forward to catching up on the other works in this series – as soon as I can get out from under this rock. -- Peter Scisco
    • 4/5
      Judging by this collection, Zagreb is a complicated place. Diverse, divided, melancholy, filled with crime, drunkenness, pessimism, desperation, danger, and some love and caring. Peopled by survivors, drunks, opportunists, cynics. One character in the book describes himself as “the offspring of a class that’s already been smashed by the waves of history.”The stories delve into many aspects of Zagreb. Or at least unsavory aspects. In “Slices of Night” a soccer hooligan, a compromised politician, his mistress and a curious cat all impact each other. An aging underachiever who pines for his departed girlfriend gets involved in alien smuggling in “Weiner Schnitzel.” In “The Old Man from the Mountain” a crime flunky makes the mistake of bragging about an encounter with the “old man’s” woman. In the intriguing “Night Vision” a graphics engineer with scotopic vision – “it means I can see in the dark,” inadvertently uses that ability to improve Serb-Croat relations, at least in his own life. As he puts it, “I had that deceptive feeling that there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel.”