Mlakar Frank (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [moderate wear to top and bottom edges; the jacket has tiny nicks and some dog-earing at spine ends, but is actually a bit nicer-looking than the book, downgraded a bit only because of the price-clipping]. Novel about a young Slovenian couple whose "flight from the claims of blood and conscience" compel them to emigrate to America. The man, Osip, had "committed a crime, so primitive and taboo in character that it revolted even the peasant people who had known him from childhood [and] branded him forever as a pariah." (He assaults his father and steals his life savings.) The immigrants pass quickly through New York on their way to "Cuyahoga City" (presumably a fictionalized Cleveland) and settle in an area called the Chicken Village, described as the "capital of all the Slovenian immigrants in America." (The author himself was born in Cleveland in 1913, of Slovenian parentage; "Slovenian was his first language, and he spoke no other until he began school.") Simone 579. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction.".