Fly Away, Pigeon

Melinda Nadj Abonji · 2010 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

A family of Vojvodina Hungarians who run a café in Switzerland watch Yugoslavia break up, and the daughters work out where they belong. The novel won the Deutscher Buchpreis and the Swiss Book Prize in 2010.

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