Nokturno za Primorsko

In the late 1920s, the eighth year of the Fascist era, the parish priest of a village in the Vipava valley awaits his new chaplain with some unease. Florijan Burnik is handsome, musically gifted and a committed Slovene, and he will not stay silent while Slovene is driven out of schools, print and even gravestones. When the Church seems to side with the Fascist policy of assimilation, he falls into a crisis of faith, which leads him on a journey to Bavaria to meet the stigmatic Therese Neumann. His story continues through persecution, a Nazi camp and the Second World War into the first years of communist rule. The priest is modelled on Filip Terčelj, a priest from the Littoral.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

199 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, Italy, Germany, 1920s–1940s

First published

2004 by Mohorjeva družba / Mladika

Author's age

80 when first published

ISBN

9789612185008 (original)

More

Wikidata