Return to Trieste
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Return to Trieste
9.99 €
Alma has spent her entire life running away from painful memories, from people and from herself. But her father’s death forces her to return for three short days to Trieste, the city of her childhood and youth. He left her a commentary, a postscript, something more than just an inheritance.
On this journey, Alma recalls the eclectic mosaic of her past: her grandparents, intellectuals, bearers of Austro-Hungarian culture; her mother, who helped the mentally ill along with the reformer Franco Basaglia; her father, part of Marshal Tito’s inner circle; and Vili, the son of the family’s Serbian friends. Alma fears most of all meeting him, a former friend, lover and now enemy. But a meeting with Vili is inevitable: it is he who will deliver her father’s farewell message.
Federica Manzon skillfully explores the themes of identity, memory and history against the backdrop of the painful transition from a unified Yugoslavia to the formation of the Serbian and Croatian republics. Trieste, with its unique border town atmosphere, becomes a starting point for reflection on how to put together the disparate parts of the soul and find your way home.
On this journey, Alma recalls the eclectic mosaic of her past: her grandparents, intellectuals, bearers of Austro-Hungarian culture; her mother, who helped the mentally ill along with the reformer Franco Basaglia; her father, part of Marshal Tito’s inner circle; and Vili, the son of the family’s Serbian friends. Alma fears most of all meeting him, a former friend, lover and now enemy. But a meeting with Vili is inevitable: it is he who will deliver her father’s farewell message.
Federica Manzon skillfully explores the themes of identity, memory and history against the backdrop of the painful transition from a unified Yugoslavia to the formation of the Serbian and Croatian republics. Trieste, with its unique border town atmosphere, becomes a starting point for reflection on how to put together the disparate parts of the soul and find your way home.
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