Dark Mother Earth

AN AMNESIAC WRITER'S LIFE OF LIES AND FALSE MEMORIES REACHES A BREAKING POING IN THIS STUNNING ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM AN AWARD-WINNING CROATIAN AUTHOR.

As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he's written two well-received books. It's his third that is as big a failure as his private life. Unable to confine his fabrications to fiction, he's been abandoned by his girlfriend over his lies. But all Matija has is invention. Especially when it comes to his childhood and the death of his father. Whatever happened to Matija as a young boy, he can't remember. He feels frightened, angry, and responsible. . .

Now, after years of burying and reinventing his past, Matija must confront it. Longing for connection, he might even win back the love of his life. But discovering the profound fears he has suppressed has its risks. Finally seeing the real world he emerged from could upend it all over again.

2013 Kristian Novak (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2019 by Ellen Elias-Bursac.

VIATA DE MINCIUNI SI AMINTIRI FALSE A UNUI SCRIITOR AMNESIAC REALIZA O POZA DE RUPTURA IN ACEAST DEBUT DE LIMBA ENGLEZA DE LA UN AUTOR CROAT CASTIGAT. In calitate de romancier, Matija isi schimba lucrurile. Inca nu treizeci, a scris doua carti bine primite.