Vse moje Amerike

The writer feels he owes a debt to his late grandfather, known in Križevci in the Goričko hills as Šandor the American. As a boy he promised to take him back to Bethlehem in the United States, where Šandor was born and where he lived for several years after the First World War, and to write a novel about his life, though nobody in the family took the promises seriously. Twenty years after his grandfather's death, now a real writer, he decides to keep at least part of his vow, but unexpected circumstances change that too. What emerges is an interweaving of the notes he has gathered for years on his relative's American experience and the story of his own life: his grandfather's America and his own "Americas", told with irony, with Šandor's dialogue in the Prekmurje dialect.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

311 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, United States

First published

2017 by Litera

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9789617018486 (original)