Miracle in the Víboras Valley

Well, to this brief list we have to add this Miracle in the Víboras ValleyCroatian novel against Tomic starring a family of subnormal all crazy Composed by Jozo (father) and Kresimir, Branimir, Zvonimir and Domagoj (his four adorable offspring) that lives in a semi -warm state in a remote mountainous village. Anyway, a panda of tarado and semi -tan palettes, irascible, violent, rude, superstitious, etc. To make an idea: some Hillbillies taken from some Tarantino movie or the coen and transferred to the Balkans to come out on a kusturic movie.

Ok, and the argument? Well, out there that the vipers are doing their things (kidnapping some employees of the electric company who approach their domains to make them pay pending receipts since 1984) when one of them, Kresimir, is fed up and says that Split is long to recover a “love” of war times and put a woman in their lives.

I don’t spread anymore. The novel has so many turns and so crazy that it would be impossible to make a summary. I will only say that there are blows, chatter and fights that neither in Bud Spencer’s movies (it has a lot of slapstick This novel), threats, persecutions, misunderstandings, ligoteo classes, corruption, war veterans, pathetic neo -Nazis, arms orgies … but what is, above all, are many laughs thanks to an absurd and grotesque humor.

He had a giant bruise in the right thigh, and another on the side, and a third in the left forearm, and even a room under the eye. It hurt when breathing, as if they had broken a rib. In addition, he had jets on his lip, eyebrow and ear, they had taken a tooth and two others were quite loose. Otherwise, it was fine.

Other aspects to highlight from the book are its devilish rhythm, its agility and plasticity and some crazy dialogues. Not just that. Like every good book “Humor”, there is something of criticism of the time and place in which it takes place, that new Croatia of lounge bar To which it is difficult to leave behind some references from the darker past, and this could closely close the vipers with the Svejk soldier or Ivan Chonkin, but they are less clear associations.

In any case, and overlooking the occasional “incoherence” or “point not too clear), a hilarious book and an ideal option for those who seek in their summer readings something entertaining and light, although not exempt from quality.