FictionDB

Kin — Miljenko Jergovic

buy the book from amazon

Paperback editions:

  • Trade Paperback
  • Jun-2021
  • Archipelago
  • ISBN: 1939810523
  • ISBN13: 9781939810526

   Buy from Amazon

Hardcover editions:

eBook editions:

  • eBook (Kindle)
  • May-2020
  • Archipelago

   Buy from Amazon

Audio editions:

Large Print editions:

Flag    Amazon UK



Browse Similar Books at Amazon
Literature & Fiction->Literary
Literature & Fiction->Genre Fiction->Family Saga
Literature & Fiction->Genre Fiction->Family Life


Description
Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergovi�"‡ 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 Jergovi�"‡ investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergovi�"‡ 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. A portrait of an era.
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS PAGE COMES FROM AMAZON. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.