if anyone asks, tell them it meant more and feel free to say I was better than I am. and I was a little bit better than I am, wasn’t I?
let’s laugh, Nikola, with an unearthly laughter, wait I hear a sound, I think this might be what brought the signal, it’s coming, I’ll close now so the message doesn’t stay in draft, Johnny B
ROBERT PERIŠIĆ’s novel Our Man in Iraq garnered rave reviews from the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, and NPR’s All Things Considered, among others, and was praised as “a must-read” by the Guardian. Perišić has published award-winning nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and criticism in his native Croatia, where both Our Man in Iraq and No-Signal Area were bestsellers. He began writing short stories in the 1990s with a clear anti-war sentiment, during the days following the devastating war that tore apart the former Yugoslavia, and is now considered to be one of the most important writers and literary critics in the region. Perišić lives in Zagreb.
ELLEN ELIAS-BURSAĆ is a translator of fiction and nonfiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. She has taught in the Harvard University Slavic Department and is a contributing editor to the online journal Asymptote. She lives in Boston.
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