The Hired Man (Paperback)

from lauralkeet

When an English family arrives in the Croatian village of Gost and moves into the blue house next door, Duro offers to help with minor repairs and maintenance. Laura and her children Matt and Grace plan to stay in Gost during the summer holidays; Laura's husband Conor is largely absent due to pro...

from ForeignCircus

This excellent novel tells the tale of one small town in Croatia trying to come to terms with its wartime history. Newly arrived from England, Laura and her family see a lovely town where they cam built a summer home and a future business. Handyman Duro sees the town where he grew up superimposed...

from kidzdoc

Gost is a small Croatian town in the year 2007, whose apparent peacefulness belies deep seated animosities between its citizens that resulted from the Croatian War for Independence and its aftermath. Its people generally prefer to remain in the town in which their ancestors have resided for hundr...

from elkiedee

How would you feel about buying a holiday home in a former war zone? Duro lives in Gost, a small town in Croatia. He lives alone and sometimes struggles to make ends meet, so when Laura and her family come from England to stay in a house which has been empty for some years, he sees an opportunit...

from tututhefirst

Others have dubbed this one atmospheric and disturbing.  I alternate between stunning and unsettling.  Make no mistake, this beautifully written story of the civil war that took place in Croatia in 2007, contains brutal text, ugly scenes, gut-wrenching episodes of inhuman behavior.&nbsp...