COMO

In his cult novel, Serbian writer Srdjan Valjarevic describes the lyrical hero's lunar life on Lake Como: sumptuous dinners, expensive alcohol, mountain walks, flirting with local girls, and more that we know about hard writing. However, the second, hidden bottom that secured Como's world career was the war that shook ex-Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Only this book is one of the best examples of psychological military prose, where the word "war" is almost never used and where there are no descriptions of battle scenes at all. For the widest range of readers.