The latest addition to my website is Robert Perišić‘s Hodati kao mačka (A Cat at the End of the World). The book opens around 400 BCE. Katia is a slave in Syracuse (Sicily but then a Creek colony ruled by a tyrant). The son of his owner, Pigras, is given a cat, Miu, a rare creature at that time but the cat takes to Katia and not to Pigras, to Pigras’ annoyance. When a fight takes place, Katia and Miu flee. They are encouraged to join an expedition to Issa (present-day Vis)and take Mikro, the donkey in whose stable they have been hiding. We follow their adventures and how Katia grows up A third key character, the wind, comments on the foibles of humans, particularly slavery and the cruel exploitation of animals. It could have been mawkish but Perišić tells a serious, if occasionally whimsical story about how humans behave and how they should behave, no doubt with the Balkan Wars at the back of his mind.