Otroške stvari

The narrator recalls his childhood from his birth in Basel in 1928 to 1939, when, aged eleven, he arrives with his family in a suburb of Ljubljana on the river Sava. Bubi, as he is called, is a stubborn, clever child who does not fit in. He lives through illness, a sanatorium and school, the darkest experiences of all; constant quarrels in a family on the edge of poverty; and a city hostile to foreigners. The child's world moves between a complicated reality and blurred fantasy, and his clash with the adult world pushes him into solitude. When Nazism makes life in Switzerland impossible, the family has to leave in a hurry for the father's country, which the boy does not know.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

350 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Coming of age, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Switzerland, Slovenia, 1928–1939

First published

2003 by Študentska založba

Author's age

75 when first published

ISBN

9789616446242 (original)

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