Native Land [Paperback]

Nadja Tesich (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 26, 1999

playwright and scholar returns to her birthplace finds herself embarking on an entirely different course.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Returning to her birthplace of Yugoslavia in May 1991 to participate in a literature conference, Ann finds herself overwhelmed by a need to reconcile both her past and her present. Although she left for the States as a teenager and is now a middle-aged wife and mother, Ann has never felt comfortable in America, still feels displaced, and is overwhelmed with a desire to belong. When the conference ends, she stays on to rediscover her native land. Time passes and the country, on the verge of civil war, begins to disintegrate, while Ann conversely finds her own splintered parts coming together to form a whole person. Tesich (who, like Ann, was born in Yugoslavia) presents her native land as it was before its devastating breakup, offering brilliant portraits of its people and places while reflecting through her heroine on the importance of identity and personal integrity, on the human need to belong, and on the cultural distinctions that both bind and divide. This rather open-ended novel, written with grace and honesty, deserves a place in all substantive fiction collections.?Sister M. Anna Falbo, Villa Maria Coll. Lib., Buffalo,
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About the Author

Nadja Tesich was born in Yugoslavia and educated in various fields (French literature, Russian, mime, and film). She has worked in many areas of the film world—as an actress and assistant with Eric Rohmer, and as a technician and writer/director of her own works. She taught French Literature at Rutgers and film at Brooklyn College. Her first play, After the Revolution, was produced by the Women’s Project at the American Place Theatre. Her short stories and essays have appeared in, among other publications, Mademoiselle, The Nation, American Fiction, City Lights Review, and The Kenyon Review. Her first novel, Shadow Partisan, was published by New Rivers Press. Native Land is her second novel.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Brookline Books/Lumen Editions (January 26, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571290427
• ISBN-13: 978-1571290427
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,370,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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