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IVANA IN FRONT OF THE SEA
by VERONIKA SIMONITI
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Winner of THE KRESNIK AWARD 2020 for the best novel in Slovenia.
Rights sold to Croatia, Serbia, Albania and China!
IVANA IN FRONT OF THE SEA
(Ivana pred morjem)
The narrator returns from Paris, where she has created a home for herself, to the Primorje region in Slovenia in order to clear the apartment that belonged to her late mother for a serious buyer, and in a heap of yellowed photographs she finds a picture of her grandmother, holding her five-year old mother’s hand, whilst her other hand lies on her pregnant stomach.
The year it was taken, 1943, was one of troubling events and rapid change. What happened to the unborn child? Through a number of parallel stories taking place at different times and generations of one family, Veronika Simoniti’s novel presents the reader with the collective past and individual fates. These move between Paris and Primorska, also stopping in Gorenjska, Ljubljana and many other places, even in Serbia as refugees, but all this movement cannot break the human bonds. Even the hard times after the war are written about in the author’s gentle manner, looking from ever new standpoints at what we share. A beautiful novel about unattractive times and things.
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Author Biography
VERONIKA SIMONITI (1967) appeared on the Slovene literary scene as an author of short stories, which have won numerous competitions and been collected in two books. In 2015, her first novel, Kameno srce (A Stone Heart), was among the five finalists for the Kresnik Award.
Veronika Simoniti, born in 1967, studied Italian and French languages at The Faculty of Arts at The University of Ljubljana. Between 1994 and 2009 she worked as a freelancer, and she has so far translated numerous works from Italian (Calvino, Magris, Marani, Buzzati, Camilleri, Galimberti...). She also teached Italian language at the private language schools and at the Faculty of Arts. She is an acclaimed writer and has published a novel and a few short story collections. Since November 2014, she has edited a billingual web blog La casa di carta/Papirnata hiša. She lives and works in Ljubljana.
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- Publisher CANKARJEVA ZALOŽBA
- Orginal LanguageSlovenian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789612823535
- Publication Country or regionSlovenia
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleIVANA PRED MORJEM
- Original Language AuthorsSLOVENIAN
- Copyright Year2019
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