Volume 41, Number 6 · March 24, 1994
Worth a Detour
By Tim Parks
A Ghost in Trieste
by Joseph Cary, drawings by Nicholas Read
University of Chicago Press, 291 pp., $27.50
Trieste is hardly on the beaten track for Italophiles. Almost a hundred miles east of Venice and on the wrong side of the Adriatic, it seems to gaze back at the bel paese, instead of being a part of it. It has no great art galleries, museums, or monuments. The weather is notoriously harsh. And even identity is a problem: a windswept stone's throw from the Slovenian border, Trieste is home to three distinct ethnic groups: Slav, Germanic, and Italian.
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