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When the Town’s Future Is an Obsolete Factory

Robert Perisic’s novel “No-Signal Area” is set in an unnamed Balkan country struggling to recover after war.

No-Signal Area by Robert Perisic https://amzn.to/2WkNsX0

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Now, after Boris, it was crystal clear that my voluntary mediation in human resources was extremely stupid. Sanja compared it to her experience of volunteering in the alternative drama group Zero. Her circles from the Academy had gathered there, full of enthusiasm, only to break up in rancor in the winter, with everyone feeling they’d been used by a bunch of thankless idiots.

— OUR MAN IN IRAQ by Robert Perisic

(rolling my eyes hard at that Franzen blurb though... clearly we wouldn’t know that Croatia matters without the Franzen say-so... Also, what’s with the heavy-handed extended metaphor about light? Blurbs are such a weird thing.)

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The Gazette calls Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perisic "one of the most striking novels of the year."

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Our novel Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perisic is featured in World Literature Today's Notable Translations of 2013!

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The Millions included Our Man in Iraq by our own Robert Perisic on their Most Anticipated Books of 2013 list and are now excited about its $1.99 Kindle sale!

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Depicting a generation raised in 'strange Eastern European systems' who 'placed too much hope in rock ’n’ roll,' this provocative satire explores both modern Croatia and its discontents and also, like Mother Courage, the human lust for power and money that still spawns war and suffering.

— World Literature Today on Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perisic

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"... this desire to fight is a visceral endorsement of Perisic's novel; he pushed me into a fight-or-flight response mode that primed my psyche to receive his story. … Perisic’s novel will dig beneath perception of regionalism and come to readers as what it is; a tale of one man’s confrontation with the limitation and crossed wiring of his own desires, the likes of which take place every day on every square foot of this modern earth we tread."

— American Book Review on Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perisic

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Remember those otherworldly night vision clips, aired like clockwork on the network news, of the air assault on Baghdad? Perisic does and invokes them with Boris's frantic prose. They're haunting, the placid green filter with glowing orbs of projectile death raining down from on high. These images are the sublime of the 21st century.

Read the rest of The Collagist's review of Our Man in Iraq.