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Petar Saric. Mitrova Amerika. Belgrade. Prosveta. 2012. isbn 9788607019663
Mitrova Amerika (Mitar's America) is the Serbian literary contribution to the topic of immigration to the United States. In this intriguing novel, Petar Saric (b. 1937), a native of Kosovo and author of several novels, books of poetry, and plays, takes a look at Serbian immigration before World War I. The protagonist, Mitar, a Montenegrin, arrives at Galveston, Texas, sponsored by another Serb who immigrated before him and eventually became a proverbially rich man in America. Mitar experiences the hard work of unloading ships in the Galveston harbor while assimilating to the new way of life and learning, among other things, the new language.
Saric does not dwell on the physical aspects of those experiences but rather on the psychological and emotional difficulties Mitar is...