April Fool's Day

<p>Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen an innocent prank cuts the young Croatian's budding medical career short and lands him in a notorious labor camp. Released on the eve of civil war Ivan is drafted into the wrong army becoming a pawn in an absurd conflict in which the rules and loyalties shift abruptly and without warning. But even in a world gone mad one course of action remains eminently sane: survival.</p><p>Told with bitingly dark humor and a deep tenderness <em>April Fool's Day</em> is both a devastating political satire and a razor-sharp parody of war.</p>