Ivana pred morjem

The life of Ivana is told by her granddaughter, a nameless narrator who comes back from Paris to the Primorska region to empty the family house by the sea before it is sold. The stories of three generations of one family, set in different places and times, intertwine. Among fragments of her ancestors' memories and in old letters she learns the fate of Ivana, a woman who never asks anyone for anything, and how Ivana and her husband lived before and after the war years separated them, with his exile to Serbia. A photograph from 1943 prompts the narrator to unravel a family secret and leads her to a mysterious acquaintance from her grandmother's past. The novel asks about the fate of ordinary people who long for freedom and hope.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

173 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, France, Serbia

First published

2019 by Cankarjeva založba

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789612823535 (original)