Avala Is Falling /

Avala Is Falling / / Biljana Jovanović.

In Avala Is Falling, Jovanović’s breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers, and doctors have for her. The “Avala” of the title refers to a mountain south of Belgrade which is home to some of Serbia’s most important nationalist monuments a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Jovanović, Biljana,
MitwirkendeR:
Cox, John K.,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
  • CHAPTER ONE Introductory Remarks by Jelena’s Biographer
  • CHAPTER TWO Mr. Swede, the Moustache
  • CHAPTER THREE Mića, the Future Officer
  • CHAPTER FOUR Propellers, Motors I
  • CHAPTER FIVE Marijana Says: “There’s a Daffodil between my Legs”
  • CHAPTER SIX Bautista Van Šoven (Bautista Van Schouwen)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Propellers, Motors II
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Aunt Maša’s House Rules
  • CHAPTER NINE The Secretary of the Tenants’ Council, and a Volunteer
  • CHAPTER TEN Playing Chess on Dositelj Street
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN The Lookout (The Words of the Anonymous Man Who Longs to Love Jelena’s Body)
  • CHAPTER TWELVE Jelena’s Siamese Twin
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN Jelena’s Second Letter
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN Mathematical Symbols for Jelena’s Future, or Zoran’s Lips
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN Jelena’s First Letter
  • EPILOGUE
  • AFTERWORD

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