Panorama

A writer, perhaps the author's alter ego, sets out on a slow journey along the rainy, fog-bound Irish coast in search of peace and inspiration, then travels on to Belgium and through Ljubljana to Sarajevo, the road leading him ever deeper into the landscapes of his own mind. Told as an associative stream of thought in long, melancholy sentences and accompanied by photographs, the book lets times, places and events flow into one another and gives voice to people without a homeland: the Albanian driver and occasional guide Gjini, Jane, an American with Irish roots, Spomenka, an émigré literature professor from the former Yugoslavia, a woman in the audience at a reading in Brussels, a poet from Sarajevo. Together their stories form a panorama of the search for what might be called home.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

217 pages in the original

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ireland, Belgium, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

First published

2014 by Beletrina

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9789612840433 (original)

9780720619225 (Peter Owen Publishers, United Kingdom)