Plum brandy : Croatian journeys / Josip Novakovich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novakovich, Josip, 1956-

Series:

Terra incognita (Fredonia, N.Y.) ; v. 7.

The terra incognita series ; [v. 7]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Croatia--Description and travel.

Croatia.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, [2003]

Summary:

Immigrant writer Novakovich records his journeys to find his roots, some to his native Croatia, some no farther than Cleveland, where he searches for the grave of his grandmother, who refused to return to Croatia with the rest of her family. This moving collection reflects the joys and the difficulties in returning to a homeland left behind.

"Novakovich is a strong, original writer. His subtle prose makes me beam with pleasure, and break into an anxious sweat at the same time. He has mastered the tone of bearing witness as a principle of moral literature." -- Philip Lopate, "The Art of the Personal Essay"

Josip Novakovich is the author of "Yolk, Apricots from Chernobyl," and "Salvation and Other Disasters."

Contents:

On the Art of Visiting Your Homeland 11

Tako Je To 15

III. Sawdust Memories

Grandmother's Tongue 21

Secret Spaces Of Childhood 36

A Meditation on Wood 42

Deceptive Pleasures of Chess 45

Sawdust Memories 50

Daily Bread 59

IV. Croatian Journal

A Homecoming 63

An Anti-Story 76

Guns of August 83

Countries Without Bridges 100

A Place in Between 127

V. Writing Home

Hvar 135

Thin and Fat Cats 140

Letter From Croatia 142

A Train Romance 157

On Finding a Grave in Cleveland 166

My Son's Views 177.

Notes:

"Travel stories, memoirs, reflections, and character portraits mostly from 1993 until 2002 ..."--P. 12.

ISBN:

1893996573

OCLC:

52523797