Boštjanov let

During the Second World War two gendarmes come to a lonely farmhouse in the Carinthian hills and take Boštjan's mother away, so abruptly that she cannot put her bread in the oven. She is sent to a Nazi camp and never comes back. Six-year-old Boštjan withdraws into himself and grows up afraid and estranged from people. After the war his father, a woodcutter back from the front, remarries, works him hard and beats him, and the closed, church-ruled village offers him no comfort. His only light is Lina, a girl from a wealthier farm whom the customs of the valley forbid him to love.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

134 pages in the original

Genres

War, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Austria, 1940s

First published

2003 by Litera

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9789616422161 (original)

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