#supporttranslatedbooks discussion

The July read from the #IFFP short list is Trieste from Dasa Drndic, who won the readers choice. It was translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac.

I think this is another tough read but worth while. I have just ordered it from the library and can't wait :-)

Hello everybody, I am so sorry for not being here for a while but we have moved and I had not internet access for a while. I also could not get the book before the middle of July so I am still reading it.

Therefore I prolong this one for the rest of August. Has anyone of you read this book?

I am a bit disappointed because it just feels like a history book and I can not really get into it. It shows an awful lot of information about the great wars that many of us probably are not aware of. I am reading it as I am interested in this kind of thing but I wish even more now that "Traveller of the Century" would have won the #IFFP readers choice award. But never mind :-)

Having read some more and thought about the book a lot more has changed my mind. I think it deserved the readers choice award even though it is probably a little bit a political correct choice :-). But I think this book had to be written in the way as it is as it would have been to much for the reader to deal with all the atrocities shown if it would have been only a kind of personal story. We have read so many of those as well so this mix of historic information and life story of the Tedeschi family is spot on. I wonder if she meets her son after all.
Anyone else has read or is reading it and wants to comment?