Our Man in Iraq is a social novel that, with a great deal of humor, addresses contemporary themes while also being a subtle love story that cannot escape the world surrounding it. Witty, ambitious, and intelligent – it is a novel that reshaped the image of contemporary Croatian literature. It is a story about today’s media and our illusions – a narrative populated by journalists, actresses, entrepreneurs, models, out-of-control rebels, local politicians, people obsessed with television, and small shareholders in search of happiness. In addition to “portraying a generation raised in ‘strange Eastern European systems’ that ‘placed too much hope in rock and roll,’” (World Literature Today) this provocative satire examines modern Croatia and its failures, as well as the human lust for power and money that breeds war and suffering.
Our Man in Iraq succeeded in what often seems an impossible mission – capturing the attention of the vast American literary market.