Nedotakljivi

The novel opens with a legend: a Roma blacksmith forged the nails for Christ's crucifixion, but could not cool the fourth, which still travels from one end of the world to the other, pursuing his descendants and keeping them on the move. Lutvija, a would-be Roma king, then tells the story of four generations of the Mirga family through its men: his grandfather Jorga, a Romanian Roma who escaped from a Nazi camp to Tito's Yugoslavia and made whetstones from stolen gravestones; his father Ujša, a smuggler at the Trieste market; and Don Belmoldo, a child of the 1980s in the last years of communist Yugoslavia. The book treats the lives of a nomadic people and the tolerance shown, or denied, to them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

178 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, Romania, 1940s–1980s

First published

2007 by Mladinska knjiga

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9789610101635 (original)

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