THE CAT AT THE END OF THE WORLD, ROBERT PERIŠIĆ,
What was it like, at the edge of the world, when the Adriatic was the North Sea? How did the civilization we now call Europe come about? Who were the Liburnians, whose sky was a woman? How is it possible that the first cat arrived in the Adriatic on the same boat that carried the alphabet and urban planning?
Robert Perišić takes us on an adventurous journey aboard a ship that, in the 4th century BCE, departs from the Greek colony of Syracuse to found an apoikia, a new polis, a home away from home. On the ship bound for Issa are Kalia, a boy fleeing his master, and Miu, the cat, along with vines and olive plants, philosophy, and the model of society in which we still live today. An ecological fable about the birth of European civilization.
This work was published with financial support from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.
ROBERT PERIŠIĆ (Split, 1969) is among the best-known Croatian writers of his generation. For Bottega Errante Edizioni, he published The Wonders of the City of N., a novel adapted into the TV series The Last Socialist Artefact, and the short story collection Existential Disasters and Wild Expenses. Published in 2022, The Cat at the End of the World quickly became a bestseller across the Balkans, was released in the USA and Mexico, and in 2023 was named one of the best books of the year by The Wall Street Journal.
