2010 Longlist
Murisa
ABOUT
THE BOOK
On the eve of the second World War, Engineer Julian Spransky returns to his native Marska Sobota, occupied by the Yugoslav Army since 1919. His hometown is as ever, dominated by the powerful Mura river, which took the lives of his parents, one by one. He follows his father’s previous career in the Mura Waterworks, and in a futile effort to control the river, builds a magnificant bridge.
But events are happening over which Julian has no control, the approaching German army and his love for Zenaida, the wild child daughter of the insane Ivan Kozlov..
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Erica
Johnson Debeljak
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
It is the only Slovene novel, published in English last year, but it is the best! It also won the Slovene literary award, Kresnik 2007.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
Slovenia
Original Language
Slovenian
Publisher
Slovene Writers’ Association
Translator
Erica Johnson Debeljak
Nominating Library
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