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Michael Biggins Lojze Kovacic Newcomers: Book Two (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Newcomers : Book Two
- Publication Name
- Newcomers: Book Two
- Title
- Newcomers: Book Two
- Subtitle
- Book Two
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 193981040X
- EAN
- 9781939810403
- ISBN
- 9781939810403
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Coming of Age, Historical
- Release Date
- 28/01/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 7.2in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 18.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naivet . Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as something beautiful out of a fairytale, but as they make their way toward exile, he and his family realize that any attempt to make a home in Slovenia will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and hostility, the young boy refuses to learn Slovenian and falls silent, his surroundings becoming a social, cultural and mental abyss. Kovacic meticulously, boldly, and sincerely portrays the objective, everyday world; the style is clear and direct. Told from the point of view of a child, one memory is interrupted by fragments and visions of another. Some are innocent and tender, while others are miserable and ruthless, resulting in a profound and heart-wrenching description of a period torn apart by conflict, reflected in the author's powerful and innovative command of language.
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Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
193981040x
ISBN-13
9781939810403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038622525
Product Key Features
Book Title
Newcomers : Book Two
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Coming of Age, Historical
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
384 Pages
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Item Length
7.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pg1919.21.O87p7513
Volume Number
BK. 2
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Kovacic voted the outstanding Slovene novelist of the past twenty-five years "Like Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels , Newcomers is a European saga ... that begins with the author's youth and creeps outward, describing life with a rare acuity that not only captures both its dramas and banalities, but also considers them with equal significance. Newcomers is an emblem of what memory -- personal memory, political memory, a place's memory -- can create from erasure... [C]uriously hypnotic." --Los Angeles Review of Books "A powerful chronicle of conflict and upheaval within both a family and a country, as told, and experienced, by a young, engaging, clearsighted boy . . .This fine novel is not only accessible, but deeply memorable." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Kovacic impressively catches the mood of the early years of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The volumes are masterpieces. They are bitter, but grippingly intense in their description... Newcomers is a mnemonic sleight of hand of botanical exactitude, a weighty historical document whose significance will only grow." --Sign and Sight "Epic and panoramic... Newcomers turns stereotypes on their heads, as novels of the century should do--stereotypes such as the dignity of rural poverty, the unifying sanctity of the Slovenian language, and the noble heroism of resistance." --Erica Johnson Debeljak, Context "One of the major Slovenian prose writers of the last sixty years." --Words Without Borders, Kovacic voted the outstanding Slovene novelist of the past twenty-five years " Newcomers crystallizes into a classic artist's coming-of-age story, as Bubi is drawn to painting and then writing, where, as in this rich and fascinating novel, he will search for a way to synthesize the enchantments of youth with the hard realities of the war." -- Wall Street Journal "Like Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels , Newcomers is a European saga ... that begins with the author's youth and creeps outward, describing life with a rare acuity that not only captures both its dramas and banalities, but also considers them with equal significance. Newcomers is an emblem of what memory -- personal memory, political memory, a place's memory -- can create from erasure... [C]uriously hypnotic." --Los Angeles Review of Books "A powerful chronicle of conflict and upheaval within both a family and a country, as told, and experienced, by a young, engaging, clearsighted boy . . .This fine novel is not only accessible, but deeply memorable." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Kovacic impressively catches the mood of the early years of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The volumes are masterpieces. They are bitter, but grippingly intense in their description... Newcomers is a mnemonic sleight of hand of botanical exactitude, a weighty historical document whose significance will only grow." --Sign and Sight "Epic and panoramic... Newcomers turns stereotypes on their heads, as novels of the century should do--stereotypes such as the dignity of rural poverty, the unifying sanctity of the Slovenian language, and the noble heroism of resistance." --Erica Johnson Debeljak, Context "One of the major Slovenian prose writers of the last sixty years." --Words Without Borders "In this second part of the famous Slovenian writer's autobiographical novel, the narrator details the dangers and humiliations of his boyhood living in occupied Slovenia in the Second World War...Reeling from the loss of his home in Switzerland, and surrounded by a language he can't quite master, Bubi confronts the challenges and humiliations of growing up in a strange environment. Narrated with uncanny naïveté, the novel flits between memories of tenderness and shocking violence as Bubi navigates friendship, family, and his burgeoning sexuality in a land under hostile occupation." -- Translated Lit
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