Zakaj ne pišem

The author's intimate memories are built up with reflection on the psychological and social forces that shaped her parents, and through them her. She comes from a family of immigrants from Bosnia who, during the years of transition, lived through unemployment and material hardship, together with the painful rejection of the Slovenian majority. Strained family relationships added to her sense of inadequacy and unimportance, and literature, education and the move to Ljubljana, with its livelier subcultures, became her lifelines. Layer by layer she exposes the systemic disadvantage of the young, of immigrants and of other vulnerable groups in Slovenian society, and the hard road by which a woman from a patriarchal, less educated working-class family frees herself. Yet she remains divided, no longer belonging to the world of her roots nor fully at home where her work has taken her.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

254 pages in the original

Genres

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

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2021 by Cankarjeva založba

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9789612825348 (original)