Dixieland

Pavao Pavlichych's novel intertwines the lives of seven young men who in the 1960s joined a jazz band. They grow up between the yellow walls of Vukovar houses and the green shadows of chestnut trees, and their destinies are tied around the figure of Angelus - their teacher and bandmaster, who before the Second World War had already created one band and wrote a mysterious romance that allegedly encourages listeners to commit suicide. The stories of old and new musicians, the power of their instruments, the mystical influence of music and the atmosphere of the old Croatian city - all this creates the novel "Dixieland", polyrhythmic and dramatic, like a jazz melody.