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    The Devil's Passage

    By Milan Zagorac

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    Franka, after her divorce, starts her new life with next to nothing—not even the MILF status, which implies being a mom. When she pulls some strings to get a job as a night receptionist at a relatively classy hotel, she expects a quiet time, but learns of what seems, at first, just an urban legend: A woman disappeared from the hotel, and her ghost lingers. Against her will, Franka becomes consumed with the story and begins to investigate. Soon, she’s physically and mentally exhausted from the night shift, immersed in old horror movies she watches on the job, and relies increasingly on ominous dreams. It seems as though only a miraculous pill could solve all her problems.
    The “pill” starts working as Franka makes a series of surprising discoveries, both about the fate of the missing Mirjana Sandalić and about herself. Her journey to understanding leads through a limbo beset with hallucinations, so that in the moment of catharsis she faces the question of why she’s undertaken it in the first place.
    The real protagonists of the Devil’s Passage are loneliness and abandonment, which Milan Zagorac conjures in a compelling drama with elements of psychological thriller and horror. Through the character of Franka, a disenchanted translator, the novel addresses many failings of contemporary life, casting a sharp critical eye on the emptiness, isolation, latent violence and corruption permeating it. Issues are raised of the alienation of art from consumers and artists and that in male-female and even female-female relationships (including an ambiguous lesbian affair) as we learn about the dark side of the hotel business and sparsely visited literary promotions. All of it is seen in the mirror of Franka’s fragmented psyche, which offers a possible, haunting view of the female experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMilan Zagorac
    Release dateJul 29, 2016
    ISBN9781370684373
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    The Devil's Passage
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    Milan Zagorac

    Milan Zagorac was born in 1976 in Rijeka, Croatia, where he maintains a strong presence on the local literary scene. Since graduating from the University of Rijeka with an MA in Croatian language and literature in 2000, he has been pursuing a career in publishing as an editor, journalist, essayist, critic, and more. He is a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction, with half a dozen longer projects and virtually hundreds of articles under his belt. Since 2005, he and his wife Tamara have been running their own publishing house Studio TiM. The Devil’s Passage is Milan’s fourth published novel and the first to see an English translation. His fifth novel is currently in the works. An inveterate believer in the power of the written word, Milan regularly publishes his musings on life, art, and politics on his blog, where he is known as Axiomatic Milan.

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