The Pelican

A Comedy

By: Martin Michael Driessen, Jonathan Reeder - Translator

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

From award-winning Dutch author Martin Michael Driessen comes a fearlessly funny tragedy about an improbable friendship, unstable dreams, missed opportunities, and epic coincidence.

In a quiet coastal town in Yugoslavia, two men seeking more than the Communist regime can offer find their lives deceitfully entwined.

Andrej is a postman in complete denial of his existence. He yearns for respect and fame but commits petty crimes for reasons he doesn’t fully comprehend. Josip is an increasingly irrelevant cable car operator and unfaithfully married. Life was so much simpler when neither one knew the other’s secrets. Now that they do - discovered quite by accident - each man has resorted to blackmailing the other. As their anonymous misdeeds escalate, a farce of mutual dependency begins. So does the unlikeliest of friendships when Andrej and Josip finally meet face-to-face.

In a tale set against the impending wars, Martin Michael Driessen ingeniously explores the foibles of two painfully ordinary men boldly staking their claims on life.

©2019 Martin Michael Driessen (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2019 by Jonathan Reeder.

A great listen

Completely takes you on a journey. A marvelous listen. Highly recommended. One of the best books I’ve ever listened to

How about rating books for content?

This book might have had a clever story, but I don’t know because it was vulgar, which has been unnecessary in other truly hilarious books I’ve read. I wouldn’t have bothered borrowing through Kindle Unlimited had I known that it would be graphic.