Summary of Fly Away, PigeonÂ
“Fly Away, Pigeon” is a novel about the Serbian-Hungarian Kocsis family, who relocated from Vojvodina in Serbia (then part of Yugoslavia) to Zürich, Switzerland, in the 1970s. The book follows several generations of this family as they build new lives in Zurich, running a successful café through hard work and integration, while cherishing their cultural heritage.
Reasons to read Fly Away, PigeonÂ
Fly Away, Pigeon” is a gripping family novel that explores themes such as the immigrant experience, the search for identity, family secrets, generational conflicts, and the impact of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. In 2010, “Fly Away, Pigeon” won both the German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) and the Swiss Book Prize (Schweizer Buchpreis). The author, Melinda Nadj Abonji, was born in Vojvodina and emigrated to Switzerland with her family in the 1970s. The novel is partly autobiographical.
Setting: ZĂĽrich (Switzerland) & Vojvodina (Serbia)
Original title: Tauben fliegen auf
Year of publication: 2010
Nr of pages: 212
