No one talks about the insane grotesqueness of life and death in the Balkans like Josip Novakovic does. “April Fool's Day” is both incredibly cruel and at the same time bizarrely funny. What can a person born on April Fool's Day expect from life? Especially if it’s 1948 and dictator Tito comes to power in his native Croatia? Full of hope and ambition, Ivan Dolinar enters medical school in Novi Sad in Serbia, but he is not destined to become a doctor. The war begins, Ivan is drafted into the wrong army. A pawn in an absurd game whose rules are constantly changing, Ivan is forced to fight to survive. From these twists and turns a novel emerges: a ruthless political satire and a razor-sharp parody of war, where only dark humor helps not to succumb to despair.