About the book: 1989 / Readers are offered works created in the last decade and reflecting pressing problems of human life and society. Writers are attracted by the fate of man in its moral aspect: here there is a philosophical and metaphorical understanding of the continuity of the cultural and historical process (Milorad Pavic - “Dreams of a Short Night”), and the search for happiness by three generations of “eccentrics” (Jovan Strezovsky - “Fear”), and memories about wartime adolescence (Marian Rozants - “Love”), and echoes of the war that crippled people’s destinies (Zharko Komanin - “Holes”), and sketches from the life of a modern city man (Zvonimir Milcec - “In Zagreb in the Morning”), and the problems of loneliness of old people (Mukhammed Abdagich - “The Long Cold Winter”) The presented stories are distinguished by a certain intellectualization, a new reading of some universal questions of existence, philosophical and confessional lyricism of the narrative, a tendency towards internal monologue and associative constructions, as well as emphasized irony in genre sketches.