The Hired Man

"Laura, a middle-aged British woman, buys a quaint holiday home in Gost, Croatia, and arrives one summer to fix it up. She doesn’t ask why the house is empty, nor does she seem to acknowledge the terrible war the country has survived. But the story of the village and of the house is slowly revealed to her by her hired man, Duro. As his relationship with Laura and her children develops, so too does the reader’s understanding of the pity of war and the price of silence. A thoughtful and original work from an author not afraid of asking uncomfortable questions."