Book Publishers Association of Alberta

Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, his father’s homeland. He spent time with his family in the northern village of Srebrnjak and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the south where he could break free from the constraints of everyday life. Over time, he observed Srebrnjak become a white-collar weekend retreat, the peasant community of the 1970s, to which he was first introduced, only a distant memory. From the continental interior of green valleys and plum orchards to the austere and skeletal karst coast, Drink in the Summer is a unique record of a place and people now lost to time, a description of a country’s varied landscapes, and a journey of discovery, freedom, beauty, and love.