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By\u00a0Goran Vojnovi\u0107<\/a>. Translated by Olivia Hellewell<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-1-912545-247<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fig Tree<\/em>\u00a0is a novel composed of the intertwining stories of the family of Jadran, a 30-something who tries to piece together the story of his relatives to better understand himself. Because he cannot understand why Anja walked out of their shared life, he tries to understand the suspicious death of his grandfather and the withdrawal of his grandmother into oblivion and dementia. With all his might, Jadran tries to understand the departure of his father in the first year of the war in the Balkans as he also tries to understand his mother, with her bewildering resentment of his grandfather, and her silent disappointment with his father.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fig Tree<\/em>\u00a0is a multigenerational family saga, a tour de force spanning three generations from the mid-20th century through the Balkans wars of the 90s until present day. Vojnovi\u0107 is a master storyteller, and while fateful choices made by his characters are often dictated by the historical realities of the times they live in, at its heart this is an intimate story of family, of relationships, of love and freedom and the choices we make.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winner of the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2017<\/p>\n

\"\"Winner of the \u017dupan\u010di\u010d Award, the highest recognition of the City of Ljubljana for outstanding creation in the field of art and culture, 2017<\/p>\n

Shortlisted for the Njego\u0161 Award 2017<\/p>\n

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“Vojnovi\u0107 writes with a fluency and energy that moves adroitly between tumbling inner monologues and startlingly well-observed set-pieces … \u00a0His changes of scene, period and mood find a superbly skilled advocate in Olivia Hellewell. Her agile, well-paced and thoroughly engaging translation cleverly hints, as well, at the verbal interplay of Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian and Bosnian idioms that mark these characters\u2019 differences \u2013 and their similarities. This is a story of people who shared so much and yet who quickly drifted so far, so fatally, apart, until only the fig tree was left \u201cresisting the madness which in a matter of years had changed everything, from the landscape to the people\u201d. Now, it feels like one that belongs firmly in our own backyard.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Boyd Tonkin,\u00a0The Arts Desk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Goran Vojnovi\u0107\u2019s multigenerational Balkan novel of gaps and silences…a gentle, quiet, emotionally powerful novel concerned with memory, families and the stories we tell each other…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Scraton,\u00a0The TLS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“This is a remarkable portrait of a country\u2019s fragmentation and a family\u2019s fracture.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucy Popescu,\u00a0Bookblast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“As well as serving as a group portrait of a family shaken by the shifting tectonic plates of history,\u00a0The\u00a0Fig Tree<\/strong>\u00a0is also a universal, insightful book about being a father, facing a bereavement, trying to make long-term sense of the concept of marriage. A novel of growing up, therefore, but with deep historical resonances.”<\/p>\n

Jonathan Bousfield,\u00a0Stray\u00a0Satelite<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Goran Vojnovi\u0107. Translated by Olivia Hellewell ISBN: 978-1-912545-247 The Fig Tree\u00a0is a novel composed of the intertwining stories of the family of Jadran, a 30-something who tries to piece together the story of his relatives to better understand himself. Because he cannot understand why Anja walked out of their shared life, he tries to understand …<\/p>\n

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