Category: Archipelago (Small Press)

When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brother's role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow." The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmer's twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. Ostensibly a novel about the country...
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Newcomers: Book Two

By: Lojze Kovacic

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Archipelago: Jan-20

Seller ID: 428171

ISBN: 193981040X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naivet . Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as something beautiful out of a fairytale, but as they make their way toward exile, he and his family realize that any attempt to make a home in Slovenia will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and ho...
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Our Lady of the Nile

By: Mukasonga, Scholastique

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Aug-14

Seller ID: 428864

ISBN: 914671030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

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Category: Archipelago (Small Press)

Distant Light

Twin

Newcomers: Book Two

Our Lady of the Nile