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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 naivete. 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 show more realize that any attempt to make a home in Slovenia will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and hostility, the young boy refuses to learn Slovenian and falls silent, his surroundings becoming a social, cultural and mental abyss. Told from the point of view of a child, one memory is interrupted by fragments and visions of another. Some are innocent and tender, while others are miserable and ruthless, resulting in a profound and heart-wrenching description of a period torn apart by conflict, reflected in the author's powerful and innovative command of language. show lessTags
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Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Newcomers: Book Two
- Original title
- Prisleki
- Alternate titles*
- De nieuwkomers 2 : roman
- Original publication date
- 1984 (original Slovenian) (original Slovenian); 2020 (English: Biggins) (English: Biggins)
- Important places*
- Slovenië; Ljubljana, Slovenië
- Original language*
- Sloveens
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Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.8435 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Slovene Slovene fiction 1991-
- LCC
- PG1919 .O87 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Slovenian
- BISAC
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Slovenian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
