SPLAV
My Family, a Barge in Belgrade and Other Adventures
$31.45
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2027
Summary
‘Funny, warm-hearted and eccentric - a glorious snapshot from a floating world’ Blake Morrison
For over two decades, Mary, her husband Ozren and their two children have owned a barge on the River Sava in Belgrade, made from the top of a century-old ship and recycled river crane flotation tanks. More of an Ark than a house, the splav shelters an intriguing cast of local characters, dice snakes, a gigantic fictional catfish and a flock of guard geese. The family cross t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349147949 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349147949 |
| Author: | Mary Ethna Black |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
A brilliant writer – Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love
Mary Black is a phenomenon - doctor, traveller, campaigner, prize winning author - and this book about life on a river in Serbia, and what took her there, plays to all her strengths. It’s funny, warm-hearted and eccentric - a glorious snapshot from a floating world – Blake Morrison
Mary Ethna Black
Mary Ethna Black is a globe-trotting doctor and writer from Lambeg, a village on the banks of Belfast’s River Lagan. She’s married to a Dalmatian sailor and fellow doctor from a Bosnian Partisan family who saved her life from pirates in the Bay of Bengal in 1987. As Yugoslavia disintegrated, they worked on all sides of the conflict. After the war ended, they emigrated to Australia but were drawn back to help rebuild the Balkans in 1999. Since turning to writing in 2017, Black has won the 2024 London Independent Story Prize, the 2023 Globe Soup Short Story Competition, the 2021 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair and the 2021 Fish Publishing memoir prize, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for multiple other awards.
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