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...Knopf; 265 pages) has been about the unraveling of retired photographer Paul Rayment in Adelaide. After his bicycle is clipped by a car, he loses first his leg, then his dignity and, perhaps, his mind. Dour of disposition and without family, he's drawn to his hot-blooded Croatian nurse, Marijana Jokic, whose troublesome brood he offers to support. At which point "the unattractively freckled, somewhat fleshy shoulders" of Elizabeth Costello appear up his stairs. Is she an authorial intervention? A meddling cupid? A cynic about his real intentions with the Jokics, whom she sees as more avaricious than angelic...
...jazz at the Courtyard, an outdoor venue behind the arts center at Hobart's historic Salamanca Place. Come Friday nights, it's packed with hundreds of people drinking, dancing and socializing to an ever-changing roster of bands. "We play, rain, hail or shine," says organizer Tania Bosak, a Croatian immigrant and live wire on the local arts scene who started the evenings five years ago. There's no cover charge-instead, band members walk around between sets holding out hats and caps for "gold-coin donations" (small-denomination silver change is frowned upon). But what's really special...
...ambition was clear: to become a concert pianist. But one day, as he and fellow students were watching auditions for a campus production of Macbeth, the director pressed them all to read for roles. The lines, Kline recalls, "meant nothing to me--they might as well have been in Croatian. I just used the deepest voice I could and tried to sound Shakespearean." That was enough to get him cast as a "bleeding sergeant" who speaks 30 lines of verse, collapses and is carried offstage in Act I--"to wait two and a half hours for the curtain call...
...Tarculovski on charges of murder, wanton destruction and cruel treatment - but its previous warrants are still causing ructions in the Balkans. Croatia hoped to start European Union accession talks this month, but the deal was postponed after the Hague tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, argued that former Croatian general Ante Gotovina is "within the reach of the Croatian authorities" but has still not been turned in almost four years after he was indicted. Serbia and Bosnia aren't even candidates for accession, in large part because Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic, have...
...went back now, Del Ponte might have a hard time believing that anybody did shoot. Not only has the Croatian city survived the bombardment, but it has been repaired so meticulously that the only visible reminder of those terrible months is a patchwork of bright orange tiles where faded roofing splintered by the shelling has been replaced. Residents have repainted their homes, filled the bullet holes in their walls and paved over craters in the streets. Walk down the Stradun, Dubrovnik's polished-limestone pedestrian thoroughfare lined with open-air cafés and designer shops, and you wouldn't know...