Fiction | Fiction
Fly Away, Pigeon
Melinda Nadj Abonji
© Jung und Jung Verlag
The parents immigrate to Switzerland at the end of the 1960s. At first, the children remain with their grandmother in Senta, north Serbia, where Hungarian is spoken, and join their parents only five years later. The family integrates, acquires citizenship, yet does not lose touch with the homeland. After years of hard work, they are able to manage a café located in an ideal spot by a lake. That there is also xenophobia lurking behind the Swiss idyll is not immediately obvious to the daughter Ildiko. The book was awarded the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize.
Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut