Dimokovska Lidija - Grandma Non - Oui - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Grandma Non - Oui is a biographical novel that tells the life story of a woman from Split Croatia. In her youth Grandma Nedjeljka or Non - Oui as she goes by the nickname given to her by her French teacher (a literal French translation of the syllables of her nickname Ne - Da Slavic for No - Yes) falls in love with an Italian soldier Carlo at the end of the second World War and later moves to Sicily to marry him. Written as an exchange between Grandma and Nedjeljka her granddaughter and namesake a conversation unfolds that encompasses a broad range of times and places between 1938 to 2016, moving back and forth temporally from past to present and geographically between Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily and Split Croatia. Their imagined conversations reveal the lives of these two different women and the deep cross - generational bond between them as they discuss cross - cultural love private life and family as well as the public sphere of war politics and migration.
Title: Grandma Non - Oui
Author(s): Dimokovska Lidija
Publisher: Istros Books
Barcode: 9781912545407
Pages: 210 Pages
Publication Date: 6/20/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction