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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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MOSTARGHIA
THE HEART-RENDING STORY OF AN EXILE
The young narrator, her little brother and their parents are living in Mostar when the bombs begin falling, one by one at first, then thick and fast on Tito's Yugoslavia.
In the bomb shelters, the tragic and comic scenes recounted by the cheerful residents fail to stop the reality of the massacre from filtering through: the war is here, it will continue, we have to leave. The two children climb aboard a gypsy wagon and eventually reunite with their parents in a refugee camp. From there, the little family embarks on a journey that will last for years, taking them to Switzerland and, eventually, Canada.
Along the way, the narrator grows up and educates herself, carrying on a lively conversation with her painter father, a wounded man, prophetic, quick-tempered and Balkan from tip to toe. The father's rebellious resignation, his childhood enthusiasm dashed a hundred times and his learned explanations about the lack of words and names to tell the truth echo through Maya Ombasic's ornate and sensitive text. With Mostarghia, the author pens her most autobiographical novel, the unfinished tale of an exile.
Maya Ombasic teaches philosophy in Montréal. She is the author of several books, including Chroniques du lézard and Rhadamanthe (Marchand de feuilles, 2007 and 2009).
In the bomb shelters, the tragic and comic scenes recounted by the cheerful residents fail to stop the reality of the massacre from filtering through: the war is here, it will continue, we have to leave. The two children climb aboard a gypsy wagon and eventually reunite with their parents in a refugee camp. From there, the little family embarks on a journey that will last for years, taking them to Switzerland and, eventually, Canada.
Along the way, the narrator grows up and educates herself, carrying on a lively conversation with her painter father, a wounded man, prophetic, quick-tempered and Balkan from tip to toe. The father's rebellious resignation, his childhood enthusiasm dashed a hundred times and his learned explanations about the lack of words and names to tell the truth echo through Maya Ombasic's ornate and sensitive text. With Mostarghia, the author pens her most autobiographical novel, the unfinished tale of an exile.
Maya Ombasic teaches philosophy in Montréal. She is the author of several books, including Chroniques du lézard and Rhadamanthe (Marchand de feuilles, 2007 and 2009).
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Published 2017-03-01 by Flammarion |