A08 The Other Half of The Apple, By Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin

The Other Half of the Apple combines the author’s insights on her visits to Canada and the USA with the personal stories of Italian expatriates from Venezia
Giulia, Istria, Fiume/Rijeka, and Dalmatia (the Julian-
Dalmatians) she meets along the way. The journey begins with
the author’s participation, as a reporting journalist for TV
Capodistria (Slovenia), in the world-wide gathering of Julian-
Dalmatians organized by the Club Giuliano Dalmato di Toronto
in Niagara Falls (Canada) in September 2000; they end twenty
years later when the COVID lock-down brings such experiences
to a temporary close and opens the way to a retrospective on “the
other half of the apple” the author has come to know so well.
The result is a thought-provoking, at times moving exploration
of cultural identity, personal resilience, and group determination,
all framed by the experience of war, exile, refugee camps, and
diaspora.

Advance Praise:

Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin offers dispatches from a journalistic and emotional journey into the worlds of Julian-Dalmatians in Canada and the USA. Beyond the nostalgia common to diasporic experience, she discovers everyday practices of reconciliation in a population historically sundered by violence and displacement. Rich in timely lessons about the possibilities for solidarity and community in an era of global forced migration.

-PAMELA BALLINGER, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Through a series of interviews with first and second generation members of the Julian-Dalmatian community overseas, Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin provides a remarkable historical record of this people’s unique experience of exodus and emigration.

- DEBORAH SAIDERO, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

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The author: Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin, winner of the 2021 Fulvio Tomizza Prize, is an international journalist, researcher, and author based in Trieste, Italy. She is the author of In the

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