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»Ein Wunder, eine bemerkenswerte Leistung, und ganz anders als alles, was Sie in diesem Jahr lesen werden.« The New York Times Zwei Geschichten, eine Familie. Emine wächst im Jugoslawien der Achtzigerjahre auf. Mit siebzehn wird sie mit einem Mann verheiratet, dem sie vor der Hochzeit nur ein einziges Mal begegnet ist. Was als glückliche Verbindung gedacht war, wird bald zu einer aufreibenden Prüfung. Als dann in ihrem Land ein erbitterter ...

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From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life-a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile to Albanians....

Bolla is the story of what happens when passion and history collide-when a love that is already forbidden and laced with danger, is ripped apart by war and migration, separated by continents and fate.

From the author of Crossing--a National Book Award finalist--comes a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust.April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-two-year-old, recently-married student at the University of Pristina, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile to Albanians. In a café he meets a young man named Milos, a Serb. Before the day is out, everything has changed for both of them, and w...

Von Anfang an hasst er das, was er nicht sein kann. Im politischen Chaos Tiranas aufgewachsen, treibt Bujar nach dem Tod des Vaters durch eine Welt sich auflösender Grenzen: Auf seiner Odyssee, quer durch Europa über New York bis nach Helsinki, geht es ihm irgendwann nicht mehr um das Ankommen. Es geht ihm um die Freiheit, alles zu sein. Bujar ist Mann, ist Frau. Er liebt Frauen, er liebt Männer. Bujar verwandelt sich, er wird verletzt und ver...

In the desolation of post-Communist Albania, teenage boys Agim and Bujar flee to Tirana and then on to various great cities across the globe, with Agim's search for gender identity occurring alongside the pair's search to reconcile national identity with a sense of belonging somewhere new. From the author of "My Cat Yugoslavia".

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:THE GUARDIAN • LIBRARY JOURNALSteeped in a rich heritage of bewitching Albanian myth and legend, Crossing is a deeply timely and deeply necessary novel about war, exile, and identity in all its complex permutations. After the death of his father, a young boy named Bujar grows up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend, Agim-who is fac...

In the desolation of post-Communist Albania, teenage boys Agim and Bujar flee to Tirana and then on to various great cities across the globe, with Agim's search for gender identity occurring alongside the pair's search to reconcile national identity with a sense of belonging somewhere new. From the author of "My Cat Yugoslavia".

From the acclaimed author of My Cat Yugoslavia: a stunning, incandescent new novel that speaks to identity, war, exile, love, betrayal, and heartbreakThe death of head of state Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend, Agim-who is facing his own realizations about his gender and sexuality-gives him hope for the future. Together the two d...

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ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA love story about what it means to be an outsider from the most imaginative new voice in international fiction. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-...

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A beautiful and ambitious debut novel about love, war, family and belonging, it follows the difficult journey of a young gay man and his manipulative, yet charming, talking cat.

A love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in prese...

A New York Times Book Review Staff Pick"A marvel, a remarkable achievement, and a world apart from anything you are likely to read this year." -Téa Obreht, The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, and what was meant to be a happy match quickly goes wrong. Shortly thereafter, the country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee to Finland, where her son Bekim grows ...

Siamo negli anni Ottanta del XX secolo, nella Jugoslavia più arretrata. Una giovane donna musulmana è costretta seguendo riti familiari antichi e feroci a sposare un uomo che praticamente non ha mai visto prima. Nonostante questo, si sforza di essere una buona moglie, ma la vita non fa che metterla di fronte a delusioni e amarezze. Allo scoppio della guerra, lei, il marito, i figli, decidono di fuggire. Verso il Nord Europa. Suo figlio crescer...