Волґа, Волґа

Every Friday, Jelal Plevlyak gets into his regular "Volga" and travels from Split to Livno to pray in the mosque. For fifteen years, he drives this road back and forth every week, thinking he knows every turn and every tree on it until a sudden snowfall and a flat tire stop him at the border between Croatia and Bosnia. Which door to knock on for help - Christian or Muslim? His future life, which is already full of adventures, depends on this decision. This is a story about the painful loneliness of a person, faith, and loss; a novel about a car and its driver, who in socialist Yugoslavia believes in Allah as sincerely as he believes in communist ideals. Written as a detective story, "Volga, Volga" goes far beyond the boundaries of this genre, once again proving that Yergovich knows how to look into the deepest recesses of the human psyche and soul.

The publication was made with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb.