Yugoslavia, My Fatherland

by Goran Vojnovic, Noah Charney (Translator)

Overview

Years after the end of the conflict that tore about the country of Yugoslavia, a man goes in search of this father's true identity. A hard-hitting examination of a generation from the former Yugoslavia that escaped the bullets but not the war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908236272
Publisher:	Istros Books
Publication date:	10/05/2015
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Goran Vojnovic graduated from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, where he specialized in film and television directing and screenwriting. The film Good Luck Nedim!, for which he co-wrote the script with Marko Šantic, won the Heart of Sarajevo Award and was nominated for the European Film Academy’s Best Short Film Award in 2006. He has directed three short films himself, and his first feature film, Piran/Pirano, premiered in 2010. Vojnovic's Southern Scum go home! reaped all the major literary awards in Slovenia. A collection of his columns from a Slovene daily newspaper and weekly magazine have also been published as a book under the title When Jimmy Choo meets Fidel Castro.

Editorial Reviews

"Vojnovič is influenced by American movies, and Yugoslavia, My Fatherland uses cinema’s generic conventions to address the theme of war crimes head-on. . . A gripping narrative that requires no allegorical decipherment, its author employs a noir style to capture the seaminess and stupor of Yugoslavia and traces these early symptoms to the country’s disintegration. In this milieu, national or ethnic identity is a giant Rubik’s cube made of razors." —Times Literary Supplement

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