![]() With luminous prose and a delicate eye, Pajtim Statovci delivers a relentless novel of desire, destruction, intimacy, and the different fronts of war. What happened to him, to them, exactly? How much can you endure, and forgive?Įntwined with their story is a re-created legend of a demonic serpent, Bolla it's an unearthly tale that gives Arsim and Miloš a language through which to reflect on what they once had. ![]() Years later, deported back to Pristina after a spell in prison and now alone and hopeless, Arsim finds himself in a broken reality that makes him completely question his past. 272 (hardback) In a way, it’s unimportant that Banine’s Days in the Caucasus and Pajtim Statovci’s Crossing come to us via translation foremost, they are a memoir and a. 288 (hardback) Crossing, Pajtim Statovci (translated by David Hackston), Pushkin Press, 2019, pp. Before the day is out, everything has changed for both of them, and within a week two milestones erupt in Arsim's married life: his wife announces her first pregnancy and he begins a life in secret.Īfter these fevered beginnings, Arsim and Miloš's unlikely affair is derailed by the outbreak of war, which sends Arsim's fledgling family abroad and timid Miloš spiraling down a dark path, as depicted through chaotic journal entries. Days in the Caucasus, Banine (translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova), Pushkin Press, 2019, pp. ![]() In a café he meets a young man named Miloš, a Serb. Arsim is a twenty-two-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. ![]()
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