"Luka, Greg and Bili grew up together in the small town of Osijek in the former Yugoslavia, getting drunk, playing in a mediocre band, fighting and flirting with their girlfriends." "Now it is 1991. Bili has just returned from national service and it looks like the young men can get back to their crates of beer. But as the sound of creaking tanks reaches earshot and neighbours hurry down to their basements in pajamas, it is clear that the town is changing irrevocably. Luka defiantly tries to carry on as normal as his Croatian girlfriend Maria rails at his indifference. But soon the young men must take sides as each one is drawn back to a heritage that never used to matter much to them." "Luka finds himself on the Serb side on a smallholding filled with looted televisions and a variety of crazy soldiers. As the men eat from stolen tins and seem to be killing each other over the quality of the soup, Luka watches in resigned despair, while tragedy approaches."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved