Mlada Misa / The First Mass

(AGM, Zagreb 2018.)

Marijan Maćun Ćivara—once known in the adult film world as CroCum—returns to his native Batina seeking a new beginning: to rediscover love, reclaim respect, and revive a sense of solidarity lost in a globalized age of relentless competition.

From the clash of Western and post‑transition cultures to traces of the past found in the Morlak self‑help classic of 1743, Opaszke o vladaniu zsobon i drugiem, this novel probes the shifting powers of church, politics, and community.

(Mlada misa is a spirited sequel to the bestselling I Am Not a Kraut)