Goran Vojnović
Author of Yugoslavia, My Fatherland
About the Author
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Works by Goran Vojnović
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1980-06-11
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Slovenia
- Birthplace
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Awards and honors
- Crystal Vilenica (2010)
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Statistics
- Works
- 10
- Members
- 92
- Popularity
- #202,476
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 28
- Languages
- 7
I have very mixed feelings about the book. Although the book provides some in depth perspectives on the book's characters, at the end of the book, I felt that their characterizations were really so superficial that I did not know much about the characters. That said, the portrait of the grandmother's growing dementia is very touching. The book is also full of invectives against Bosnians. Finally, the way the book is structured is a challenge. The book switches from first person to first person without really making it clear who the chapter is about. Similarly, it jumps from time period to time period. This made the book more trouble than it was worth.… (more)