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Die Nachkommende
“The One Who Comes After” (title translated by AI)
Ivna Žic (born 1986)
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Midsummer. A young woman travels by train from Paris to Croatia, where, as every summer, her family is waiting on her grandmother's island. She thinks of the man with whom she had a relationship for a year that could never really begin: he is married, a painter who no longer paints. On the moving train her dead grandfather sits down beside her, also a painter who stopped painting. The two absent-present men accompany her on a journey into the past and into memory, out of which a family story takes shape: her parents' emigration shortly before the war in Croatia set off countless movements, departures and breaks.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 164 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Migration, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, Croatia, Switzerland
- First published
- 2019 by Matthes und Seitz Berlin
- Author's age
- 33 when first published
- ISBN
9783957577696 (original)