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Summer after summer, a girl finds herself far away from her Austrian homeland on a Dalmatian island in the care of her grandmother. It has something paradisiacal and at the same time it is something else, something foreign. Here is the archaic archipelago of a fishing village in the mother and grand motherland. You pay homage to Marshal Tito and his partisans and celebrate the victory over the Germans while they are again coming across the country, this time welcome - as paying tourists. In the middle-class, sheltered life of an Austrian provincial capital (fatherland), the National Socialist sediment persists and Yugoslavs mainly appear as guest workers. The novel is about finding identity, alienation, growing up between two cultures and childhood scenes, namely the archaic island world of Croatia and Austria.--Adapted from bookdepository.com