Book by Penny Simpson
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Penny Simpson is the 2008 winner of the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition and TMA Critic of the Year. Her short fiction will feature in the Dalkey Archive Press (US) collection, Best European Fiction, 2010. She is a Fellow of the Hawthenden International Writers Centre, 2009 and has received two writers' bursaries, from the Arts Council of Wales and Academi. The unanimously positive reviews of her first novel, The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum, include media such as the TLS, Jewish Book World (USA), New Welsh Review and Morning Star. Banquet was chosen by Welsh Literature Exchange for their 2008 Showcase. Penny was named by Mslexia as a Woman to Watch for 2009.
Set in Split, Zagreb and Hvar in the Forties and the Nineties, sculptor Antun and student Dagmar are separately seeking truths about their parents. The novel explores how a country like Croatia could implode into violence; how history is still a living (and unspent) force for many, and how, when so much has been destroyed, may a future re-emerge.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Two periods of Croatian history are interwoven in the stories of a sculptor and a student both seeking truths about their parents. Antun belongs to 1941, the time of the first Independent State of Croatia, and Dagmar, 1998, when a second attempt at independence was forged, following the Balkan War of 1992 - 1995. Set in Split, Zagreb and Hvar, the novel explores how a country like Croatia could implode into such violence; how history is still a living (and unspent) force for many and how might it be possible to trace out a future when so much has been broken and destroyed. Can a country torn apart by civil war ever know peace? Was the price paid for independence really worth it? In 1941, artist Antun Fiskovic experiences a sea-change in his fortunes following the revelation of the identity of his real parents, just as occupying forces take over the government of his country. Fifty years later, a young woman called Dagmar Petric begins a search for answers to the suicide of her father, a disgraced journalist in Tito's Jugoslavia. Antun and Dagmar's stories come together in 1998, in a newly independent Croatia. But what happens when the dead come to life?This is the question that haunts both protagonists, a question that is only answered when Antun breaks his silence over the bitter legacy of a wartime killing by Branko Ostojic, a childhood friend and partizani hero, as the sculptor prepares for his retrospective. Set in Split, Zagreb and Hvar in the Forties and the Nineties, sculptor Antun and student Dagmar are separately seeking truths about their parents. The novel explores how a country like Croatia could implode into violence; how history is still a living (and unspent) force for many, and how, when so much has been destroyed, may a future re-emerge. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780956012500
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