Summary of Southern Scum Go Home!
“Southern Scum Go Home!” is a novel about Marko, a young immigrant from Bosnia who lives in Ljubljana’s Fužine neighbourhood where he hangs out with his friends and plays basketball. But when a fight gets out of hand and he is beaten up by the Slovenian police, events quickly spiral out of control.
Reasons to read Southern Scum Go Home!
“Southern Scum Go Home!” is a dramatic yet humorous work of social criticism about immigrants and their treatment in Slovenia. The novel is written in a mixture of languages, dialects, and slang. Goran Vojnović is a renowned Slovene author who won the Kresnik Award and the Grand Prešeren Award for this novel in 2008. Vojnović also published the novels “Yugoslavia, my Fatherland”, a family story set against the backdrop of the Balkan Wars of the early 1990s, and “The Fig Tree”, a family saga spanning three generations in the Balkans from the mid-20th century to the present day.
Setting: Ljubljana, Nove Fužine (Slovenia)
Original title: Čefurji raus!
Year of publication: 2008
Nr of pages: 200
