After a failed attempt at self-realization in Berlin, a 20-year-old gay man and poet decides to return to Croatia. He works at the front desk of a Zagreb hotel and continues to write poems that no one
will ever see published. The routine of meetings with an older lover, phone calls with friends abroad, attempts to make ends meet, lost illusions and a growing sense of indifference is interrupted by his father’s illness. Uncompromising, fast-paced, ironic, with short chapters full of deep emotions in which sex and death, fear and joy alternate, Son of Dad is a novel about the generation born in the 1990s, sensitive and educated young people who live worse than their parents in a society that offers them no opportunities. A lost millennial, as much as the future he was promised, who will search at all costs for a way to survive and fulfill at least the smallest dream. DINO PEŠUT (Sisak, 1990). Croatian writer, playwright and poet. A graduate of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, he is known as a playwright at home and abroad, a multiple winner of the Marin Držić Prize for Best Dramaturgy, a recipient of the Deutschen Jugentheaterpreis and the Heartefakt Foundation Prize for the most socially engaged contemporary text. He participates in the residential program for young playwrights at the Royal Court Theatre in London. His plays have been translated into English,German, French and Polish. In 2018 he published his first novel, Poderanakoljena, with the Croatian publishing house Fraktura. Son of Dad represents his debut
in Italian translation. He dialogues with Sergia Adamo, lecturer and researcher in Literature Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Trieste.
