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“Harvest Season” (title translated by AI)

Magdalena Blažević (born 1982)

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After a short affair with a glassblower, the photographer Una, claiming to be preparing an exhibition, flees her unbearable everyday life for her parents' house in a long-deserted village. With the analogue camera she inherited from her mother Ida she photographs empty houses, the village and the nearby small town, and talks to her absent lover about coming home and about longing. Her pictures of what dark times left behind hint at a love story decades old: Ida, though married, fell for another man and, like Una now, was ready to begin a new life. Then Ida herself speaks to her lover, telling Una's childhood from her side and carrying the trauma the war left on her body and her life.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
147 pages in the original
Genres
Love, Family (assigned by AI)
First published
2023 by Fraktura
Author's age
41 when first published
ISBN

9789533586144 (original)