Sanje Publishing

The King of the Rattling Spirits
by Miha Mazzini

  • original title: Kralj ropotajočih duhov
  • fiction/novel
  • first published in 2001
  • 281 pages
  • sold to: US, Poland, the Czech republic, Croatia, Italy
  • represented by Sanje
The King of the Rattling Spirits

Based on the script to his award-winning film, "Sweet Dreams," The King of the Rattling Spirits follows young Egon who wants nothing more than to own a record player. But nothing is easy in Tito??s Yugoslavia, especially if you??re dealing with a less than stable mother, a psycho phys ed teacher, and a grandmother who converses with spirits. But young Egon is determined...

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The King of the Rattling Spirits is Miha Mazzini’s hilarious and touching fictional memoir of coming of age in 1970s Yugoslavia where rock’n’roll??regardless of what mothers or dictators believed??was king.
from the cover of Scala House Press edition