Saga o kovčku

Writing about herself in the third person as Dominka, the narrator gives as much room to her family as to her own life: her sensitive, reserved father, whom she resembles most, her mother, her sister Mili, with whom she shares the most, and her eldest sister Jolanda, a role model and second mother. Family photographs, a grandfather's letters to his fiancée, wartime letters between the daughters and their interned father, and the father's diary from the First World War are woven into a chronicle in which small everyday events give shape to the great breaks of history. The narrator's view grows from a child's naivety to an adult's irony, ending before she comes to know the professor who will change her life.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

375 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, Italy, 20th century

First published

2003 by Nova revija

Author's age

71 when first published

ISBN

9789616352505 (original)