Belo se pere na devetdeset

In the first person, Bronja takes us back to the 1970s and 1980s and introduces her family: her beautiful, adored young mother Mita, her father, her brother Rok, four years younger, and Dada, her grandmother on her mother's side. The young family shares its flat on Vojkova Street in Ljubljana with visiting aunts and uncles, family friends and kind neighbours, and the kitchen is the centre of Bronja's world, full of details of everyday life then: Sandokan sticker albums, Benko cocoa, skipping elastic in front of the blocks, the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics on television. Moments of closeness between Bronja and her mother run through the book. But this childhood is only the calm before the storm: deaths among relatives and friends, then her mother's cancer. An autobiographical novel about growing up, facing loss and illness, and learning to live with fear.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

259 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, 1970s–1980s

First published

2018 by Beletrina

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9789612843861 (original)