Mirko Bozic belongs to a generation of Croatian writers who appeared on the literary scene immediately following World War II. While most of those writers actively sought new modes of expression, Bozic remained more of a traditionalist. He also belongs to a group of writers who fought during World War II with the partisans of Josip Broz Tito. No other writer, however, pursued such an active political career after the war as Bozic climbing all the rungs of the Yugoslav Communist Party up to its central committee. Finally, Bozic is also one of many writers from the Dalmatian rural regions of Zagora, a poor, isolated, backward area where the peasants struggle daily for survival and the townspeople lead a petit bourgeois existence. In his writings Bozic managed to capture in a unique and forceful way not only the conflicts, problems, and obsessions of the people from Zagora, but...