Fly Away, Pigeon

Tauben fliegen auf

Melinda Nadj Abonji (born 1968)

Translated by Tess Lewis

In English

Fly Away, Pigeon

Seagull Books · United Kingdom · August 2022 · Paperback · 294 pages
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Fly Away, Pigeon

Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2014 · 212 pages
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The Kocsis family lives in Switzerland but does not feel at home there. They come from the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina, in northern Serbia. The father emigrated first, and as soon as it was allowed, the mother followed with the two daughters, Nomi and Ildiko. Told by Ildiko, first with a child's eyes and later as a young woman who notices the cracks between very different worlds, the family builds a life in Swiss catering. What begins as a light-hearted Balkan comedy, with summer trips back home in a rattling brown Chevrolet, is soon overshadowed by history and the coming Yugoslav wars.

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Form

Novel

Length

314 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Family, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Switzerland, Serbia

First published

2010 by Jung und Jung Verlag

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9783902497789 (original)

9780857422125 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

9781803090481 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)

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