Josip Novakovich

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2000
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Books in Order: 9 titles

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  • Vignettes

    Josip Novakovich's Vignettes offers a wide-ranging look at his life, including his youth in hometown Daruvar, Croatia, where he attended school in a castle on a hill with barrels of whites and reds stored in the basement, "my peers and I learned the ...

  • Rubble of Rubles

    From Man Booker International Prize finalist Josip Novakovich comes a satiric novel with teeth -- a tale of Russia in the early aughts, perfect for fans of Dostoevsky and Gary Shteyngart.In this picaresque novel set in the early 2000s, David, an inve...

  • Honey in the Carcase

    Both absurd and melancholy, Honey in the Carcase, the newest collection from award-winning Josip Novakovich, moves from scenes as familiar as a dinner party to the brutal landscapes of war-torn Southeast Europe. A man tends bees amid the bombed-out h...

  • Heritage of Smoke

    Short story writer, novelist and essayist Josip Novakovich returns with his first collection of stories since being named a finalist for the prestigious 2013 Man Booker International Prize. In Ex-Yu, he explores the major themes of war and exile, of ...

  • Three Deaths

    Three Deaths is acclaimed writer Josip Novakovich's first exclusively Canadian edition of his writing. This elegant edition works as a triptych consisting of three distinct genres: a personal essay, a short story, and a classic tale. All three exq...

  • Fiction Writer's Workshop

    Master the Elements of the Writing Workshop

    The great paradox of the writing life is that to be a good writer, you must be both interested in the world around you and comfortable working in solitude for hours on end. Fiction Writer's Workshop,...

  • Infidelities

    Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever. Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the New York Times for writing fiction that has "the crac...

  • April Fool's Day

    Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts the young Cro...

  • Stories in the Stepmother Tongue



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Josip Novakovich has published 9 books.

Josip Novakovich does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Vignettes, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Josip Novakovich, Stories in the Stepmother Tongue, was published in June 2000.

No. Josip Novakovich does not write books in series.
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