The Camp of the Innocents

The greater part of the book is based on a true story and describes the
experiences of a boy in a summer camp, where he learns many of the
lessons of life in the difficult way. In a broader aspect, it is about man, who
possesses the quality of a leader, but the system turns him into a loser.
The action only seemingly develops in a smaller country of the Balkans,
Europe, during its early post-communist period. Human relations viewed
are independent of place and time and of the age of the characters, as
it is no secret that children's world is a reflection of a purer type of the
world of adults. This is a book about the collision between good and
evil, about truth and lie, about dignity and humiliation, about friendship
and betrayal... But besides drama, there is also humour in it; besides
violence, there is nobility and also philosophical and psychological
thinking, entwined in the dynamic action.