Reading Europe celebrates Slovenia

Reading Europe celebrates Slovenia on 7 June 2016
 
READING EUROPE FROM UK INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS
There are 24 countries in the EU in addition to the 4 countries in the British Isles and Commonwealth. Before the EU Referendum let us take the opportunity to find out something more about fellow members and neighbours. The recommended titles have been selected to let the reader know the literature, history and culture of each country better. On 7 June we celebrate Slovenia.
 
RECOMMENDED TITLES FROM SLOVENIA
Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnovic, translated by Noam Charney (Istros)
ISBN 978 1 908236 27 2,216 pages, £9.99
The breakdown of a country seen through the microcosm of one family. Set in Slovenia and Croatia, this novel covers the social and political landscape during the war and also in present day, taking in issues of how society has accommodated victims and perpetrators of the 1990s' war in a fast-paced quest story.
 
My Father's Dream: A Tale of Innocence Abused written and translated by Evald Flisar (Istros)
ISBN 978 1 908236 22 7,196 pages, £9.99
The book tells the story of fourteen-year-old Adam, the only son of a village doctor and his rather estranged wife, living in apparent rural harmony.But this is a topsy-turvy world of illusions and hopes, in which the author plays with the function of dreaming and story-telling. The story reveals an insidious deception, in which the unsuspecting son and his mother are the apparent victims; and yet who can tell whether the gruesome ending is reality or just another dream….