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... it is incredible to suddenly reach the readers of the world...

70s set novel told by a young woman whose marriage has just ended. in what is now Croatia.

The novelist has an amazing story: despite a lack of success she kept writing until she was "discovered " in her seventies. This is her first novel in #translation #WiTmonth
https://inpressbooks.co.uk/blogs/news/talking-to-the-author-an-interview-with-ma...

...I would sit in the shade, reading all day...

The board with the five-pointed star declares that he was an atheist and a communist....
He messed up somewhere, opened his big mouth, drank too much - they wouldn't let him join, and after that he always lived in fear. And that fear lasted right through to his death, because even though he burned all of my mother's religious books... when he returned from the war, and wouldn't let her baptise me (so she had to do it in secret)...