LEADER 04883nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910956520603321 005 20250204185710.0 010 $a9781283692236 010 $a1283692236 010 $a9780299287931 010 $a0299287939 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046321 035 $a(OCoLC)815380387 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10613453 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000600899 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11351129 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600899 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10600486 035 $a(PQKB)11019507 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445266 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17810 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445266 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10613453 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL400473 035 $a(OCoLC)927484076 035 $a(Perlego)4390191 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046321 100 $a20111107d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMy father's books /$fLuan Starova ; translated by Christina E. Kramer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (211 p.) 300 $a"Originally published in Macedonia as Tatkovite knigi, copyright 1992"--T.p. verso. 311 08$a9780299287948 311 08$a0299287947 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Part One -- My Father, Our Family, the Books -- Love -- The Fate of the Books -- Differences -- The Garden -- The Fountain -- The Balcony -- The Cabinet -- Identity -- The Life of the Books -- The Death of the Manuscript -- A Secret -- Learning about the Deities -- My Father's Fatherlands -- My Father's Languages -- My Father's Dictionaries -- The Radio -- Old Age -- The Books and My Father's Friends -- Eastern Dream and Western Dream -- Friends -- Autodidacts -- Libraries -- A Boarder in Babel -- Language Quarrels -- Balkan Babel -- A Choice -- Sacrifice for Books -- The End of Time -- The Books in One's Life -- Father's Books, Migrations, Stalinism, the Balkan Wall -- The Spyglass -- The Globe -- The Family Clock -- Travel -- The Bomb -- Flags -- The Mother Tongue -- The Holy Books -- Dreams of a Lost Time -- The Power of Languages -- Rakija and Meze -- The Taste of the Dough -- Holiday Tikush -- Stalin's Portrait -- Shock Workers -- The Silver Mirror -- The Medal -- Holiday -- Ration Books -- A Coin in the Trevi Fountain -- La Rinascente -- The Balkan Wall -- Prayer -- Tears -- Part Two -- The Margins of My Father's Books: The Constantinople Dream, in Search of Lost Time -- The Third Exit -- The True Path -- At a Crossroads in the Labyrinth -- Between Constantinople Heaven and Balkan Hell -- Mission -- The Game of Defeat and Victory -- Janissary Fate -- The Key of Destiny -- The Waves of Illusions -- The Debt to Time -- Between East and West -- Sea Dream -- Holidays in Defeats -- Lost -- Tattered Fate -- Bartering with Fate -- The Dream of the Books -- The Eastern Sword of Damocles -- The Fedora -- Time Discovered -- Documents I -- Documents II -- Documents III -- The Meaning of the Silence -- The Documents (Epilogue) -- Perhaps the Real Ending -- A Borrowed Book. 330 8 $aIn My Father's Books, the first volume in Luan Starova's multivolume Balkan Saga, he explores themes of history, displacement, and identity under three turbulent regimes-Ottoman, Fascist, and Stalinist-in the twentieth century. Weaving a story from the threads of his parents' lives from 1926 to 1976, he offers a child's-eye view of personal relationships in shifting political landscapes and an elegiac reminder of the enduring power of books to sustain a literate culture. Through lyrical waves of memory, Starova reveals his family's overlapping religious, linguistic, national, and cultural histories. His father left Constantinople as the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the young family fled from Albania to Yugoslav Macedonia when Luan was a boy. His parents, cosmopolitan and well-traveled in their youth, and steeped in the cultures of both Orient and Occident, find themselves raising their children in yet another stagnant and repressive state. Against this backdrop, Starova remembers the protected spaces of his childhood-his mother's walled garden, his father's library, the cupboard holding the rarest and most precious of his father's books. Preserving a lost heritage, these books also open up a world that seems wide, deep, and boundless. 606 $aAuthors, Macedonian$y20th century$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, Macedonian 676 $a891.8/193 676 $aB 700 $aStarova$b Luan$0628398 701 $aKramer$b Christina Elizabeth$c(Professor)$0862502 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956520603321 996 $aMy father's books$94359931 997 $aUNINA