Materada
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780810117587
Hardcover|9780810117587
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Overview
Francesco Koslovic -- even his name straddles two cultures. And in the spring of 1955, in the village of Materada on the Istrian Peninsula, the two worlds of Francesco Koslovic are coming apart. A novel both lyrical and elegiac, Materada unfolds against the backdrop of the Istrian exodus -- the departure from their homeland of hundreds of thousands who had once thrived in the peninsula's rich ethnic mixture of Italian and Slav, Croat and Slovene. Complicating -- and hastening -- Koslovic's own departure is his vain attempt to keep land that he and his brother have worked all their lives. As Koslovic narrates the events leading up to his family's displacement -- and the feud that divides the family itself -- he brings a rare immediacy to the questions of ethnic identity that have rolled Central Europe in the twentieth century. A picture of a disappearing way of life, imbued with love for the tastes and tales and songs of his native Istria, Koslovic's story is also a testament to the inextricably intertwined ethnic roots of Balkan history.
| ISBN-13 | 9780810117587 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0810117584 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.00 x 0.75 x 8.25 In |
| List Price | $55.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 134 pages |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Published On | 1999-12-25 |
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