Blogs in May 2020

Yugoslavia, My Fatherland 20th May 2020

The story that unfolds in Vojnović’s hugely popular Slovenian novel is so gripping, that it is quite easy to forget your real surroundings. A Google search takes Vladan Borojević back to the catastrophic events of 1991, when he first...

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Southern Scum Go Home! 17th January 2020

Vojnović’s novel acts as an encyclopaedia in its creation of urban environment scenery, where the smell of “sarma” (rolled leaf of sour cabbage stuffed with rice and minced meat) and the dictating beats of Southern folk songs penetrate through...

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