Lovers and Madmen: A True Story of Passion, Politics, and Air Piracy (Healthy Eye) - Softcover

Busic, Julienne Eden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519615027 ISBN 13: 9781519615022

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

LOVERS AND MADMEN: A TRUE STORY OF PASSION, POLITICS, AND AIR PIRACY is dominated by two central themes: politics and love. Julienne Busic’s memoirs take the reader through the events that shaped her life with Croatian dissident husband, Zvonko—assassination attempts, threats from the Yugoslav secret police, flights from country to country, enforced poverty and deprivation—and characterize the love that led to the greatest sacrifice of all: a sentence of life in prison for the political hijacking of a TWA jet. Less than twenty years after the Busics’ desperate act, Yugoslavia broke apart in a spasm of war, and Croatia is now an independent state. The message contained in the leaflets thrown during the hijacking served as a prophecy of this disintegration and the vicious Serbian aggression, first in Croatia and Bosnia, and most recently in Albanian-populated Kosovo. Zvonko and Julienne Busic received mandatory life sentences (with parole eligibility recommended by the judge after ten years for Zvonko, and eight years for Julienne). Julienne served thirteen years in prison and was released on parole in 1989. Zvonko remained in prison until he was released in June 2009, almost thirty-two years later, from a high security unit in Terre Haute, Indiana. You can also purchase this book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Lovers-Madmen-Passion-Politics-Healthy/dp/1519615027/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451393922&sr=1-1&keywords=julienne+busic

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About the Author:

Julienne Busic is an author, translator, and essayist who lives in the Republic of Croatia. She has studied in the United States and Vienna, Austria, and holds a Master’s Degree in German language and literature and linguistics. Her short stories, essays, and columns have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers in America (“The Barcelona Review’, “The Gobshite Quarterly”, “In Other Words-Merida”, “Verbatim: A Language Quarterly”), and Croatia (“The Bridge-Most”, “Kolo”, “Aleph”, “Jutarnji List”, “Vjesnik”, “Autsajderski Fragmenti” “Tema”, etc.) Her first book of memoirs, “Lovers and Madmen” won the Croatian Writer’s Society award in 1997 and was recommended recently by Britain’s “The Guardian.” She is also the author of “Your Blood and Mine” (Ridgepath Press, 2009), and a third novel, “Living Cells”, based on a true story about the Croatian “comfort women” held as sex slaves during the recent Homeland War. She won the prestigious A.B. Simic literary award for “Living Cells”.

Review:

"This is a travelogue of the revolutionary life, an enduring love story, and an exploration, both unsettling and liberating, of international politics played out on the most personal level." --Claire Ortalda, writer, editor, and founding member of PEN Center, Oakland, California

"Busic s book movingly illustrates how easy it is to be drawn emotionally by a burning sense of injustice into actions which ultimately have tragic and far-reaching repercussions. The 30-year detention of Zvonko Busic also shows how little value is placed on redemption and forgiveness by those who preach it, and especially how the system is unable to distinguish between one kind of terrorism and another." --John C. Griffiths, former President of British Liberal Party, and author

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1519615027
• ISBN 13: 9781519615022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378