Dušan Šarotar - Biliárd a Dobray Szállóban

Dusan Sarotar (1968), Slovenian writer, poet, publicist, author of documentaries and screenplays. Publisher and newspaper editor in Ljubljana, publishes criticism, essays, and organizes literary meetings. "Billiards in the Dobray hotel" with his novel. The German and Hungarian troops withdraw from the city, the muzzle fires of the Soviet forces are already visible in the sky. Tito's partisans also appear in the area. At that time, the author's grandfather returns from Auschwitz, whose fate recalls the tragedy of the four hundred Jews of Muraszombat. Šarotar not only writes a historical documentary about the Slovene, Hungarian and Jewish community of the once flourishing bourgeois city, but also reproduces the peculiar, depressing atmosphere of Muraszombat on the edge of the border, forgotten by everyone. The embodiment of this is the Dobray Szálló, which is still standing today on the main square of the town, operating as a bar and restaurant, hotel and casino as well as a brothel.

Pro Pannonia Publishing Foundation
Novel
168 pages
Binding: hardboard, thread bound
ISBN: 9789639893641
Author: Dušan Šarotar