TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jergović,Miljenko
AU  - Valentino,Russell Scott
TI  - Kin
SN  - 9781939810526
U1  - 891.833 23
KW  - Families
KW  - Yugoslavia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - War fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - Includes "History, Photographs" in 34 unnumbered pages following the text; "Copyright © Miljenko Jergovic and Fraktura, 2013"--Title page verso
N2  - 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
ER  -