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“More Sea” (title translated by AI)
Ilma Rakusa (born 1946)
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A childhood and youth in Central Europe, just as that Central Europe was being given new political and cultural outlines after the Second World War. In many short chapters, the author follows the little girl she was, daughter of a Slovene father and a Hungarian mother, whose stations lead from a small Slovak town through Budapest, Ljubljana and Trieste to Zurich, and from there further east and west, to Leningrad and Paris. A stranger everywhere, never quite belonging, she found a home early on in music and piano playing, in literature after discovering Dostoevsky, and in movement, in being on the road.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 321 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, 1940s–1960s
- First published
- 2009 by Droschl Literaturverlag
- Author's age
- 63 when first published
- ISBN
9783854207603 (original)
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