Kin / Miljenko Jergović ; translated from the Croatian by Russell Scott Valentino.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Croatian Edition: First Archipelago Books editionISBN: 9781939810526Uniform titles: Rod. English Subject(s): 1900-1999 | Families -- Yugoslavia -- Fiction | Families | Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | YugoslaviaGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | War fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Historical fiction. | Biographical fiction. | War fiction. | Novels.DDC classification: 891.833 Other classification: Summary: Kin is a family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail.
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Includes "History, Photographs" in 34 unnumbered pages following the text.
"Copyright © Miljenko Jergovic and Fraktura, 2013"--Title page verso.
Kin is a family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail.
In English, translated from the Croatian.
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