Return to Trieste
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Return to Trieste
9.99 €
Alma spends her entire life running 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 comment, 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 alongside the reformer Franco Basaglia; her father, a member of Marshal Tito's inner circle; and Vili, the son of the family's Serbian friends. Most of all, Alma fears meeting him—her former friend, lover, and now enemy. But a meeting with Vili is inevitable: it is he who will deliver her 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 gather the disparate parts of the soul together and find one’s 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 alongside the reformer Franco Basaglia; her father, a member of Marshal Tito's inner circle; and Vili, the son of the family's Serbian friends. Most of all, Alma fears meeting him—her former friend, lover, and now enemy. But a meeting with Vili is inevitable: it is he who will deliver her 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 gather the disparate parts of the soul together and find one’s way home.
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