The literary evening on Friday, January 5 at 8 p.m. in the town hall of Nova Gorica presents the writer Mateja Gomboc and her novel Gorica.
Her writer colleague Nataša Konc Lorenzutti talks to the writer, who is also a teacher. The central topic of the conversation is Mateja’s new novel entitled Gorica, which was published this year by the publishing house Miš, and which the publisher presents on its website as follows:
The center of Mateja Gomboc’s novel is the town of Gorica, which the current of history divides into Italian Gorica and Yugoslavian Nova Gorica. The tumultuous period of the 1980s, in which, among other things, the occupation of the Italians, the capitulation of Italy, the arrival of the Germans, the burning of settlements around Gorica, refugees, the end of the war, the division of Gorica and the construction of Nova Gorica took place, is observed through the personal stories and perspective of four women: Ajdovka Mateje, Furlanka Pina, Goričanka Dora and Lili, Pina’s daughter. Mateja Gomboc, with an extraordinary ear for the psychology of the individual and with a broad knowledge of history, creates a dynamic, versatile and lively image of a city that was one and then suddenly split into two parts.