The new novel of one of the best Macedonian novelists and poets, winner of the 2013 EU Prize for Literature and many other awards. Lovers of Lidija Dimkovska’s work, readers od bildungsroman and ambitious contemporary prose about migration, exile, identity, dysfunctional families and social dystopia, fans of Eastern European culture and literature. Growing up of a Macedonian-Cypriot girl in a dysfunctional family in post-Yugoslav and newly formed Macedonia looking for the identity of her father in Skopje, Bristol, Varosha and the dystopian anti-commune wasteland. Katerina Avram, a young woman from Skopje, tells the story about her dysfunctional family – a negativistic mother with narcissistic disorder, an emotionally unavailable father, who is a refugee from Cyprus, a brother who ignores all of that, his daughter Sofche, who stops talking after she participates in a game at a children’s birthday party, and his wife who cannot stand it all and leaves them to go live in a monastery.

 

AWARDS:
• Novel of the Year Award, North Macedonia, May 2024.