Mostarghia EPUB

by Maya Ombasic

Part of the Biblioasis International Translation Series series

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AN OPENCANADA SUMMER READ 2019

In the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies Mostar, a medieval town on the banks of the emerald Neretva, which flows from the â€œvalley of sugared treesâ€ through sunny hills to reach the Adriatic Sea. This idyllic locale is where Maya Ombasicâ€™s life begins, but when civil war breaks out in Yugoslavia and the bombs begin to fall. Her family is exiled to Switzerland, and after a failed attempt to return, they leave again for Canada. While Maya adapts to their uprootings, her father never recovers from the trauma, refusing even to learn the language of his new country.

Mostarghia, a portmanteau of â€œMostarâ€ and â€œnostalgiaâ€, centers around Ombasicâ€™s often explosive relationship with her father, who was both influence and psychological burden: he inspired her interest, and eventual career, in philosophy, and she was his translator, his support, his obsession. Along with this portrait of a larger-than-life man described by turns as passionate, endearing, maddening, and suffocating, Ombasic deftly constructs a moving personal account of what it means to be a refugee and how a generation learns to thrive despite its parentsâ€™ struggles.