{"product_id":"my-father-s-books-paperback-softback-9780299287948","title":"My Father’s Books (Paperback \/ softback) 9780299287948","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMy Father’s Books\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuan Starova (Author), Christina Kramer (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299287948\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 July 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e136 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.9 x 14.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.15 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTranslator's Note  \u003cbr\u003e Part One 1 My Father, Our Family, the Books  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Love  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Fate of the Books  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Differences  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Garden  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Fountain  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Balcony  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Cabinet  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Identity  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Life of the Books  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Death of the Manuscript  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Secret  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Learning about the Deities  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e My Father's Fatherlands  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e My Father's Languages  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e My Father's Dictionaries  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Radio  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Old Age 2 The Books and My Father's Friends  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Eastern Dream and Western Dream  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Friends  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Autodidacts  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Libraries  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Boarder in Babel  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Language Quarrels  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Balkan Babel  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Choice  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sacrifice for Books  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The End of Time  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Books in One's Life 3 Father's Books, Migrations, Stalinism, the Balkan Wall  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Spyglass  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Globe  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Family Clock  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Travel  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Bomb  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Flags  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Mother Tongue  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Holy Books  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dreams of a Lost Time  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Power of Languages  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rakija and Meze  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Taste of the Dough  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Holiday Tikush  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Stalin's Portrait  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shock Workers  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Silver Mirror  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Medal  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Holiday  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ration Books  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Coin in the Trevi Fountain  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e La Rinascente  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Balkan Wall  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Prayer  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tears  \u003cbr\u003e Part Two 1 The Margins of My Father's Books: The Constantinople Dream, In Search of Lost Time  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Third Exit  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The True Path  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At a Crossroads in the Labyrinth  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Between Constantinople Heaven and Balkan Hell  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mission  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Game of Defeat and Victory  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Janissary Fate  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Key of Destiny  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Waves of Illusions  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Debt to Time  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Between East and West  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Dream of the Sea  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Holidays in Defeats  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lost  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tattered Fate  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bartering with Fate  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Dream of the Books  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Eastern Sword of Damocles  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Fedora 2 Time Discovered 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