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An autobiographical account of a vanished way of life, known today only from the stories of older people. Little Tone grows up in the Styrian countryside after the Second World War, in a childhood marked by poverty, frequent moves and beatings, and at times by bitterness. He is a boy who, for his time and place, starts thinking unusually early, and with every year his energy and his sense of justice and truth grow; there is room in his heart for a first love, too. Looking back, the narrator pieces together events he could not have understood as a child, learned later from others, and tries to understand his parents and how they treated him. At the most traumatic moments the account shifts from the first person to the third.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

379 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2013 by Cankarjeva založba

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9789612319564 (original)