Crossing pajtim statovci review5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His first novel, My cat Yugoslavia, also published by Pushkin press, won the prestigious helsingin sanomat literature Prize. He is currently a ph.Br>d candidate at the University of Helsinki. He moved from Kosovo to Finland with his family when he was two years old. ![]() But faced with marginalization at home and only precarious means of escape and survival, what chance do the young pair have of forging a new life? Pursued by memories of home and echoes of folk tales, they risk losing themselves in the struggle to leave their pasts behind. It is also a search through shifting gender and social personae, for acceptance and love. This is the beginning of a journey across cities, borders and Identities, from the bazaars of tirana to the monuments of Rome and the drag bars of new York. Desperate for a chance to shape their own lives, they flee. When his fearless friend agim is discovered wearing his mother's red dress and beaten with his father's belt, he persuades bujar that there is no place for them in their country. His father is dying and his homeland, Albania, bristles with hunger and unrest. We can do anything now, we can be anyone, we can go anywhere bujar's world is collapsing. Y acclaimed novel about two young men on a fearless journey across cities, borders and Identities imagine. ![]()
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