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Serbia (Rende)
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UK (Istros Books)
Ukraine (The Old Lion Publishing House)

Reviews

Vojnović is influenced by American movies, and Yugoslavia, My Fatherland uses cinema’s generic conventions to address the theme of war crimes head-on … A gripping narrative that requires no allegorical decipherment, its author employs a noir style to capture the seaminess and stupor of Yugoslavia and traces these early symptoms to the country’s disintegration. In this milieu, national or ethnic identity is a giant Rubik’s cube made of razors. – Times Literary Supplement

An important book. The author has taken what is an explosive subject and with a clever and captivating approach turned it into excellent fiction and a great narrative about the power of the past. – Berliner Zeitung
Vojnović takes his protagonist on a journey through the remains of time, through places where time stopped. Places that were full of life and are now cold graveyards of broken lives. – Pogledi

Vojnović was probably the first in the Balkan region to ask the question that has perhaps the greatest importance for the future, the question that only children can ask their parents if there is to be any effect: “And what did you do during the war?”
– Tportal.hr

Author Biography

Author and director Goran Vojnović (1980) exploded onto the Slovenian literary scene in 2008 with his debut novel Southern Scum Go Home! (Čefurji raus!). The novel became an instant bestseller, reaped all the major national literary awards, including the Kresnik Award and the Prešeren Fund Award, Slovenia’s highest award for artistic achievement, has been reprinted numerous times, made into a theatre play and a movie (the latter was directed by the author himself) and translated into nine languages. His second novel, Yugoslavia, My Fatherland (Jugoslavija, moja dežela, 2012), also received the Kresnik Award, was made into a theatre play and translated into seventeen languages. His third novel, The Fig Tree (Figa), was published in 2016 and once again received the Kresnik Award. Vojnović is only the third person to ever receive three Kresnik Awards in its history, and no one has won it more than three times; he is also the first and only writer to have received the award for each of his novels.