Radio Siga

Kalman Gubica is born in 1920, a 'love child', in Siga, an out-of-the-way village in Bačka on the Danube. Soon an orphan in the care of the local authorities, he never goes hungry or thirsty, because the post of village drummer suits him perfectly: from the age of fourteen he reads out the news from home and abroad at the twelve crossroads of the village every day, living modestly and alone, a good-natured drinker. Just before the Second World War he is struck by lightning and survives, with strange consequences, among them his long-dead father's voice talking in his head. Through the war, with the country occupied by Hungarian fascists and German Nazis, he drinks to quiet it, settles down with a Russian woman soldier and joins the resistance, still looking for a meaning to his life.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

175 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, 1920 onwards

First published

2020 by Sandorf

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789533513119 (original)

9789533513706 (Sandorf Passage, United States)