Yugoslavia, My Fatherland

Vladan spends an idyllic childhood in Pula as the son of a Slovenian mother and a Serbian officer of the Yugoslav People's Army. It ends in 1991, when his father is called to the front. The family falls apart: Vladan and his mother, who never recovers from the shock, move first to his father's relatives in Slavonia and then to Ljubljana. For years he believes his father was killed in the war. More than twenty years later, browsing the internet by chance, he discovers that the man is very much alive and wanted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Vladan sets out on a painful journey to understand how a loving father became the killer of defenceless civilians, while the gulf between him and his mother keeps widening.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

281 pages in the original

Genres

War, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, Croatia

First published

2012 by Študentska založba

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9789612423995 (original)

9781908236272 (Istros Books, United Kingdom)

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