Research Catalog

Title

Mostarghia / Maya Ombasic ; translated from the French by Donald Winkler.

Author

Ombasic, Maya

Publication

• Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Winkler, Donald
• Henighan, Stephen, 1960-

Description

168 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"In the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies Mostar, a medieval town on the banks of the emerald Neretva, which flows from the "valley of sugared trees" through sunny hills to reach the Adriatic Sea. This idyllic locale is where Maya Ombasic's life begins, but when civil war breaks out in Yugoslavia and the bombs begin to fall. Her family is exiled to Switzerland, and after a failed attempt to return, they leave again for Canada. While Maya adapts to their uprootings, her father never recovers from the trauma, refusing even to learn the language of his new country. Mostarghia, a portmanteau of "Mostar" and "nostalgia", centers around Ombasic's often explosive relationship with her father, who was both influence and psychological burden: he inspired her interest, and eventual career, in philosophy, and she was his translator, his support, his obsession. Along with this portrait of a larger-than-life man described by turns as passionate, endearing, maddening, and suffocating, Ombasic deftly constructs a moving personal account of what it means to be a refugee and how a generation learns to thrive despite its parents' struggles."--

Series Statement

Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 27

Uniform Title

• Mostarghia. English
• Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 27.

Alternative Title

Mostarghia.

Subject

• Ombasic, Maya > Family > Fiction
• Ombasic, Maya > Fiction
• Autobiographical fiction
• Refugees > Fiction
• Refugees
• Families
• Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) > Fiction
• Bosnia and Herzegovina > Mostar

Genre/Form

Fiction.

Note

• Translation of: Mostarghia.
• "Edited by Stephen Henighan"--Title page verso.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Language (note)

• Translated to English from the French.

Call Number

JFD 20-62

ISBN

• 9781771962834
• 1771962836

OCLC

1055914686

Author

Ombasic, Maya, author.

Title

Mostarghia / Maya Ombasic ; translated from the French by Donald Winkler.

Publisher

Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 27

Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 27.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Language

Translated to English from the French.

Added Author

Winkler, Donald, translator.

Henighan, Stephen, 1960- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Ombasic, Maya. Mostarghia. English. Mostarghia. Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2019 1771962844 9781771962841 (OCoLC)1080218617

Ombasic, Maya. Mostarghia. English. Mostarghia./. Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2019. Biblioasis international translation series Biblioasis international translation series ; (CaOONL)20189044632

Research Call Number

JFD 20-62