Potovci

A narrator recalls her friend Emanuel Kerekeš, a photographer who always carries a book with him, and introduces three stories told in turn. One follows his grandfather Ištvan in turbulent Prekmurje through the Second World War, a man always running: from his favoured older brother, from home, from a wife who at last conceives and dies in childbirth, from a beautiful Jewish woman he cannot have and from a letter he never delivers. The second follows Emanuel himself at the turn of 1989 and 1990, who inherits his grandfather's restless feet and the burden of that letter. The third, taken from Emanuel's book, follows the travels of the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

159 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, 1918–1992

First published

2011 by Franc-Franc

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9789612550387 (original)