Summary of The Hired ManĀ
An English woman and her two children spend a summer in Croatia to refurbish an old farm into a holiday cottage with the help of a local handyman. Step by step, she uncovers the dramas that took place in the village during the wars of the 1990s.
Reasons to read The Hired Man
āThe Hired Manā is a beautiful portrayal of the lingering effects of war on a small community and the latent tensions that persist even years later. Aminatta Forna is a Scottish writer who won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for āBest Bookā in 2011 with her novel āThe Memory of Loveā.
Setting: Croatia
Book set in Croatia: Gost, a fictitious Croatian village.
Original title: The Hired Man
Year of publication: 2013
Nr of pages: 304
