Fly Away, Pigeon - Couverture souple

Abonji, Melinda Nadj; Lewis, Tess

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1803090480 ISBN 13 : 9781803090481

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

Tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland.

In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative strands, recounting the history of three generations of the Kocsis family and chronicling their hard-won assimilation. Originally part of Serbia’s Hungarian-speaking minority in the Vojvodina, the Kocsis family immigrates to Switzerland in the early 1970s when their hometown is still part of the Yugoslav republic. Parents Miklos and Rosza land in Switzerland knowing just one word―“work.”  And after three years of backbreaking, menial work, both legal and illegal, they are finally able to obtain visas for their two young daughters, Ildiko and Nomi, who safely join them. However, for all their efforts to adapt and assimilate they still must endure insults and prejudice from members of their new community and helplessly stand by as the friends and family members they left behind suffer the maelstrom of the Balkan War.

With tough-minded nostalgia and compassionate realism, Fly Away, Pigeon illustrates how much pain and loss even the most successful immigrant stories contain. It is a work that is intensely local, while grounded in the histories and cultures of two distinct communities. Its emotions and struggles are as universal as the human dilemmas it portrays.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Melinda Nadj Abonji lives as an author and musician in Zurich. Fly Away, Pigeon is her second novel. Tess Lewis’s numerous translations from French and German include works by Peter Handke, Jean-Luc Benoziglio, and Pascale Brückner.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803090480
• ISBN 13: 9781803090481
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible