Put u Gonars

Bakar, on the Croatian coast, during the Second World War. One night a young woman, Jelena, is taken away and interned at Gonars, a fascist camp in Italy, leaving behind her husband Nikola Luzer and their four-year-old daughter Jasna. Built on the author's grandfather's notes and on the story of his grandmother, who was arrested for carrying medicine to the partisans, the novel asks what she lived through in the camp, how her husband and child got by without her, and whether the camp ever let go of her. From that core it widens, through shifting points of view and in Shtokavian, Chakavian and Italian, into a chronicle of the whole occupied town, at times grotesque and comic, in which Bakar itself becomes the main character.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

307 pages in the original

Genres

War, Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia, Italy, 1940s

First published

2018 by Profil

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789533136608 (original)