Description :
Aida is barely six when her mother wakes her up in the middle of the night. She had to flee, leave the country as quickly as possible and join her father, who was working in Italy. Yugoslavia is on the brink of war, and there is no turning back. Torn between parents obsessed with returning to the village and a Milanese couple who take her under their wing, Aïda wants to integrate at all costs. Although born in Italy, her brother Ibro doesn't fit in: fickle and hypersensitive, he suffers from a psychosis that she vows to cure.How do you grow up in a family disrupted by war and exile? How do you grow up in a country and a language that are not your own? Winner of the Viareggio Rèpaci 2021 prize for first novel and finalist for the Premio Strega 2022, ?Mirko ne viendra plus? is a memoir of a child immigrant becoming a free woman. Written in the first person, its short sentences penetrate like arrows to the very depths of our feelings.