{"product_id":"april-fools-day-paperback","title":"April Fool's Day - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts the young Croatian's budding medical career short and lands him in a notorious labor camp. Released on the eve of civil war, Ivan is drafted into the wrong army, becoming a pawn in an absurd conflict in which the rules and loyalties shift abruptly and without warning. But even in a world gone mad, one course of action remains eminently sane: survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with bitingly dark humor and a deep tenderness, \u003cem\u003eApril Fool's Day\u003c\/em\u003e is both a devastating political satire and a razor-sharp parody of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts the young Croatian's budding medical career short and lands him in a notorious labor camp. Released on the eve of civil war, Ivan is drafted into the wrong army, becoming a pawn in an absurd conflict in which the rules and loyalties shift abruptly and without warning. But even in a world gone mad, one course of action remains eminently sane: survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with bitingly dark humor and a deep tenderness, \u003cem\u003eApril Fool's Day\u003c\/em\u003e is both a devastating political satire and a razor-sharp parody of war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369191440607,"sku":"9780060583989","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tatVGUq9Gr9780060583989.webp?v=1789139317","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/april-fools-day-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}