Republika jutranje rose

At the beginning of the 20th century, as the First World War and the end of the Habsburg monarchy approach, August Lamm, a Jewish lawyer, belongs by birth to the respectable bourgeoisie of Murska Sobota. Out of vanity he buys a prestigious motor car, and with it begins a chain of misfortunes: a fatal accident for which he is neither legally nor morally to blame. A shadow of doubt nevertheless falls on him, and overnight he is socially isolated. As he wonders what caused his fall and whether he could have prevented it, he is forced to ask who he really is, while his class, family and religious identity crumble and the war isolates the whole town.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

207 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia, 1910s

First published

2006 by Mladinska knjiga

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9788611174013 (original)