Shortlisted for the Kresnik Award for best novel, Tito, My Love is probably Marko Sosič’s best known novel. It depicts a young boy, growing up near Trieste, Italy, having trouble spelling Italian words, because in his everyday life, he speaks and reads almost exclusively in Slovenian. With his uncles and aunts, he watches old films about partisans, the resistance fighters during World War II, and listens to tragic wartime stories, such as the one about his grandmother surviving a shot in the head, albeit with a bullet still in place, or about his aunt going blind after having been beaten up by fascists. But for the boy, this stark legacy is complemented by another reality, a whole new world opening up right before his eyes: the wonders of play in the beautiful nature, forests, rivers and, most importantly, the sea. Giving him courage is the promise that one day, he’ll meet the Marshal himself – the mythical hero of his relatives’ stories.