Name: Muriša
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ISBN: 9789612420758

Muriša

Feri Lainšček

Genre:: Novel
Year of publication:: 2006
Number of pages:: 232
Rights sold:: Croatia (Algoritam), Italy (Beit casa editrice), Turkey (Dedalus Kitap), UK/USA (Litterae Slovenicae)
Available reading materials:: English pdf, Italian pdf

Kresnik award-winning novel Muriša takes place in the time immediately before the outbreak of World War II. Lainšček presents us with a shocking love story, set against the backdrop of ground-breaking historical events. Julian Spransky is a young engineer involved in the construction of a bridge across the Mura River – a bridge that will later be destroyed by the Yugoslav Army as they retreat from advancing German troops. The bridge connects Julian to Zinaida, but also represents a way of taming and taking revenge on the wild river in which both of Julian’s parents disappeared. But in the battle with the river, which is also a battle with the past, Julian loses his future in the form of Zinaida. After the war years, Julian Spransky waits for his heavenly judge and wonders, poignantly, “why [he] was not allowed to die along with the fifty million innocent and guilty souls whose lives ended during the Second World War”.
The end of the war did not bring an end to all trouble and as the novel closes, Lainšček already alludes to a new social turmoil on the Pannonian plains – the coming years under the post-war communist authorities.

Kresnik Award for best novel of the year 2007

Lainšček’s Muriša weaves imagination and historical memory into a convincing, realistic picture of Murska Sobota and Pomurje in 1941.

Jury of the Kresnik Award
A story of yearning and love ...

Siol
With Muriša, Feri Lainšček confirmed that he’s bringing back to contemporary Slovenian literature the memories of a traditional, somewhat forgotten literary genre – the family saga.

Ignacija J. Fridl, Slovenian literary historian