A Brief Excursion and Other Stories

A Brief Excursion and Other Stories
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0810116359
ISBN-13 : 9780810116351
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Book Synopsis A Brief Excursion and Other Stories by : Antun Šoljan

Download or read book A Brief Excursion and Other Stories written by Antun Šoljan and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel A Brief Excursion anchors this collection of fiction by one of the most significant postwar Croatian writers. This novel and six stories, including many from Soljan's first book, Traitors, reveal a sensibility both comic and poignant, devoted to questions of identity and solidarity, of how the one and the many conflict and intermingle-issues that were at the center of both political and literary life for Soljan. Whether fixing up a summerhouse on the Istrian coast or confronting prejudice and the past in a tourist town, Soljan's characters are stirred to action by an undefined longing, only to find the stark landscape of self-knowledge and loss.


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