Crumbs

The best-ever selling novel from the former Yugoslavia, this is a hilarious, anarchic, irreverent black comedy about national aspirations and wanting things you can't have, re-published in the year that Scotland votes on independence. Egon is an amoral but charismatic writer, living on the breadline in a grim, unnamed communist factory town in Slovenia prior to the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. With little evidence of his real literary ambitions, he makes ends meet by writing trashy romances under a pseudonym. When not searching out sex with as many women as possible, or slagging off the Priseljenec iz Bosne se zaljubi v filmsko zvezdo Nastassjo Kinski. Ugotovi, da je zanj nedosegljiva, ker ni tudi sam slaven. Odpravi se na tragikomino in na koncu tragino pot do slave.