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MATERADA
FULVIO TOMIZZA ; TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY RUSSELL SCOTT VALENTINO |
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Fulvio Tomizza, Russell Scott Valentino |
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Hardback |
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£58.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810117584 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810117587 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 June, 2006 |
| Series: |
Writings from an Unbound Europe S. |
| Pages: |
134 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Synopsis: |
Francesco Koslovic -- even his name straddles two cultures. And in the spring of 1955, in the village of Materada on the Istrian Peninsula, the two worlds of Francesco Koslovic are coming apart. A novel both lyrical and elegiac, Materada unfolds against the backdrop of the Istrian exodus -- the departure from their homeland of hundreds of thousands who had once thrived in the peninsula's rich ethnic mixture of Italian and Slav, Croat and Slovene. Complicating -- and hastening -- Koslovic's own departure is his vain attempt to keep land that he and his brother have worked all their lives. As Koslovic narrates the events leading up to his family's displacement -- and the feud that divides the family itself -- he brings a rare immediacy to the questions of ethnic identity that have rolled Central Europe in the twentieth century. A picture of a disappearing way of life, imbued with love for the tastes and tales and songs of his native Istria, Koslovic's story is also a testament to the inextricably intertwined ethnic roots of Balkan history. |
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US |
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Northwestern University Press |
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Returnable |
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