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Book Slovenia 1945

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Corsellis
  • Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • Release : 2005-10-04
  • ISBN : 9781850438403
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Slovenia 1945 written by John Corsellis and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the end of May 1945, 12,000 Slovene soldiers were put on board trains by the British Army in Austria. They thought they were on their way to freedom in Italy. Their true destination was Slovenia, and death." "One of the most moving and tragic diaspora stories of World War II, Slovenia 1945 follows the fate of a strongly Catholic and non-Communist community in Slovenia, including members of the anti-Communist Home Guard 'domobranci', caught up in the maelstrom of war and politics in the Balkans and the problems of the post-war settlement. Thousands of soldiers returned to face torture and death at the hands of their war-time enemies - Tito's Partisans - who had triumphed by the war's end. Six thousand more civilians narrowly escaped the same fate, after the intervention of Red Cross and Quaker aid workers. Yet the story of exile is also one of triumph as the surviving refugees built new lives in Argentina, the USA, Canada and Britain." "In this volume, the authors call on more than half a century of research and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Slovene migrant communities around the world to tell their stories. For the first time, the survivors tell their tales of wartime cruelty, of reviving their battered community in refugee camps, and of their emigration overseas, building successful new lives through courage, self-help and strong cultural identity."--BOOK JACKET.

Book You Do Understand  Slovenian Literature Series

Download or read book You Do Understand Slovenian Literature Series written by Andrej Blatnik and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partly parables, partly fairy tales, You Do Understand is a comedy of errors for a species of talkers who’ve never learned to listen. This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need. Demonstrating that language and intimacy are as much barriers between human beings as ways of connecting them, Andrej Blatnik here provides us with a guided tour of the slips, misunderstandings, and blind alleys we each manage to fall foul of on a daily basis—no closer to understanding the motives of our families, friends, lovers, or coworkers than we are those of a complete stranger . . . or, indeed, our own.

Book Angels Beneath the Surface

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mitja Cander
  • Publisher : North Atlantic Books
  • Release : 2008-03-18
  • ISBN : 9781556437038
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Angels Beneath the Surface written by Mitja Cander and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a per capita publishing rate of more that three times that of the United States, Slovenia has a long and storied literary history, from the legendary 9th-century Freising Manuscripts to postmodern masterpieces by Igor Bratoz. Continuing that tradition, Angels Beneath the Surface, the first collection of Slovene fiction to be published in English outside of Slovenia since 1994, offers a rich sampling of Slovene short stories. The thirteen tales here represent a wide array of voices and writing styles among the country's renowned–and emergent–writers. Written between 1990 and 2005, the selections in Angels Beneath the Surface together comprise a vivid snapshot of Slovene literary consciousness at the turn of the millennium. These authors mine their culture for often startling insights in stories that range from wicked variations on fairy tales to dour romances to skewerings of the bureaucratic state. Recent articles in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and other prominent publications attest to renewed interest in European literature in translation, and this collection is an incisive entry in the genre.

Book The Tree with No Name

    Book Details:
  • Author : Drago Jančar
  • Publisher : Slovenian Literature
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781628970548
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Tree with No Name written by Drago Jančar and published by Slovenian Literature. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary recounting four decades' worth of sexual exploits, the memoir of a mental institution attendant, and a familiar-looking bicycle dredged out of a river--the discovery of these artifacts sends an archivist on an obsessive quest to discover their owners' identities and fates. Shifting between Slovenia's postcommunist present and its wartime occupation by the Axis, "The Tree with No Name" might well be Drago Jancar's masterpiece: a compelling and universally significant story of an individual confronting the constraints on truth set by his--and every--culture.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Saw Her that Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Drago Jan&269;ar
  • Publisher : Slovenian Literature
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781564789976
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book I Saw Her that Night written by Drago Jan&269;ar and published by Slovenian Literature. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I Saw Her That Night is a tragic love story set amid the atrocities of World War II in Slovenia" --

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book P Z

Download or read book P Z written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings  F O

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings F O written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book None Like Her

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jela Krecic
  • Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
  • Release : 2016-12-16
  • ISBN : 0720619157
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book None Like Her written by Jela Krecic and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To prove that he has moved on from his ex-girlfriend, Matias embarks on an odyssey of dates around the city of Ljubljana. The dates and women are wonderfully varied, the interactions perspicuously observed, the preoccupations of the characters—drawn from lively and ambitious dialogue—will speak directly to Generation Y. In Matias, Krecic has created a well-observed crypto-misogynist of the new millennium whose behavior she offers up for our scrutiny.

Book And Love Itself

    Book Details:
  • Author : Drago Jančar
  • Publisher : Slovenian Literature
  • Release : 2020-12-31
  • ISBN : 9781628973488
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book And Love Itself written by Drago Jančar and published by Slovenian Literature. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest novel by likely the greatest living Slovenian writer

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings  P Z

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings P Z written by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minuet for Guitar  in Twenty five Shots

Download or read book Minuet for Guitar in Twenty five Shots written by Vitomil Zupan and published by Slovenian Literature. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranking with the best novels about World War II, "Minuet for Guitar" is also a masterpiece of Slovenian fiction.

Book The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction

Download or read book The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction written by Naomi Holoch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes. We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married Indian woman who pursues pleasure with her female lover under the shadow of her husbands suspicious rage. We meet a teacher in Barcelona who locks herself up in her grandmother's house with her young Columbian student, and witness a Slovenian woman's rendezvous with her long dead lover. This collection includes the work of familiar writers, as well as a number never before published in English. From the West Indies to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Latin America to South Africa, the distinctive stories found in these pages evoke the diverse political, cultural, emotional, and sexual landscapes of each writer's life. A groundbreaking volume from the Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, who also wrote the introduction, this collections evokes the universal urgency of persistent desire.