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  • Newcomers: Book Three

    by Lojze Kovacic ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    **An extraordinary novel tracing the first years of communist Yugoslavia"Newcomers is a novel of grand and appalling power. It is a human-smelling work, slick with sweat, trembling with appetite. And deeply sad in its loneliness and privation, too. It wounds us in the way our own memories do. It is a marvelous and humane feat of clarity and consolidation." —Dustin Illingworth, The Nation**The ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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  • Newcomers: Book One

    by Lojze Kovacic ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naiveté. Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Newcomers: Book Two

    by Lojze Kovacic ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naiveté. Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

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