Young protagonist Bubi is a perpetual outsider - exiled from Switzerland in 1938, his family returns home to Ljubljana, where their half-German background makes them stick out in local society. Reeling from the loss of his home in Switzerland, and surrounded by a language he can t quite master, Bubi confronts the challenges and humiliations of growing up in a strange environment. Narrated with uncanny naivete, the novel flits between memories of tenderness and shocking violence as Bubi navigates friendship, family, and his burgeoning sexuality in a land under hostile occupation.
- ISBN10 193981040X
- ISBN13 9781939810403
- Publish Date 28 January 2020 (first published 24 May 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Archipelago Books
- Format Hardcover (US Trade)
- Pages 384
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781939810403