(Ebook) Bolla by Pajtim Statovci, David Hackston ISBN 9781524749217, 1524749214

(Ebook) Bolla by Pajtim Statovci, David Hackston ISBN 9781524749217, 1524749214

From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberate throughout a young man's life - a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. “Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first pages you realize that you are in the hands of an absolute artist.”  -  Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby April 1995. Arsim is a 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. Before the day is out everything has changed, and two milestones soon erupt in Arsim's life. His wife announces her first pregnancy, and he begins a life in secretYears 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. What happened to him, to them, exactly? How much can you endure, and forgive? "Two men fall for each other in the wrong place at the wrong time in this bleak tale of love and war... Statovci lets little sunlight into the narrative, the better to emphasize just how powerful homophobia and self-loathing can be...An unflinching consideration of the long aftereffects of an affair cut short."  -  Kirkus ReviewsEntwined 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. With luminous prose and a delicate eye, Pajtim Statovci delivers a relentless novel of desire, destruction, intimacy, and the different fronts of war.