Conversation with author Dejan Stojiljković about his cult novel “Constantin’s Crossroad”, a mythical thriller taking place in the last days of World War II in Serbia, Niš, at the crossroads of the worlds. It brings the story about people caught in the wheel of time, under which both individuals and nations are crushed. Vampires, Aryan mystics, nazis, partisans and chetniks, illegals and secret agents, fortune tellers and occultists, regular people, who cling onto dear life in times of evil… And the Roman emperor, Born in NIš, who changed the course of history.
There will also be a conversation about writing the script for the Shadows Over Balkan TV series. How much of it is alternative history and how much of it is the real history of this region?
A conversation with author Marijan Šiško about the novel that was waiting to be published for almost a decade. It is based on the premise that Austria-Hungary lasted beyond the World War I, deep into the turbulent 20th century, through which, in an entirely new context, a hero with an illustrious name makes his way, a certain Josip Broz. Partly set in Galicia and inspired by literature ranging from Roberts and Dick to Turtledove and Krleža, “The Eagle and the Stars” especially shines with its display of crucially different social communication and immediacy of military camaraderie, as well as with its well-researched historiographic background, from which the plot diverges into intriguing fiction.
