Books set in North Macedonia (9)
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El Tiempo de las Cabras by Luan Starova, Ramón Sánchez Lizarralde ES
AlbaniaDescription:
El narrador de la novela, hijo de exiliados albaneses y trasunto del autor, se dispone a catalogar la biblioteca de su padre y al descubrir en ella una colección de libros relacionados con las cabras evoca los acontecimientos que presenció durante su niñez, poco después de que su familia se instalara en Macedonia. En aquella época, justo al terminar la segunda guerra mundial el nuevo régimen trabajaba con ahínco en crear una gran clase proletaria en un país hasta entonces rural. Los pastores fueron obligados a instalarse en las ciudades y, así, un buen día éstas amanecieron blancas, invadidas ... continue
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Freud's Sister : A Novel by Goce Smilevski EN
Country: Europe / 
North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp? The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her brother Sigmund. Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa and allowed to list the names of people to take with him. He lists his doctor and maids, his dog, and his wife's sister, but not any of his own sisters. The four Freud sisters are shuttled to the Terezín concentration camp, w... continue
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I'm Not Going Anywhere by Rumena Bužarovska EN
Country: Europe / North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
Razor-sharp social commentary, Jane Austen for contemporary feminists unafraid to confront a dark world In her latest translated volume of collected short fiction, Rumena Bužarovska delivers more of what established her as “one of the most interesting writers working in Europe today.” Already a bestseller across her native Macedonia, I’m Not Going Anywhere is an unsentimental and hyperrealist collection in which Macedonians leave their country of origin to escape bleakness—only to find, in other locales, new kinds of desolation in theses dark, biting, and utterly absorbing stories.
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Mi Marido by Rumena Buzarovska ES
Country: Europe / North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
In these eleven devastatingly precise and psychologically unsettling stories, we follow the female protagonists' thwarted attempts at intimacy, ranging from pretense, to denial, to violent and ultimately self-destructive acts. This smart, funny, provocative collection demonstrates the profound skills that have made Rumena Buzarovska one of the finest contemporary writers of short fiction in Macedonia.
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My Husband by Rumena Bužarovska EN
Country: Europe / North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
Adulterers, cheats, hypocrites, bad seeds--in My Husband, Rumena Bužarovska turns her wry and razor-sharp gaze on men, and on the lives of the women who suffer them. In these eleven devastatingly precise and psychologically unsettling stories, we follow the female protagonists' thwarted attempts at intimacy, ranging from pretense, to denial, to violent and ultimately self-destructive acts. This smart, funny, provocative collection demonstrates the profound skills that have made Rumena Bužarovska one of the finest contemporary writers of short fiction in Macedonia.
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No Voy a Ninguna Parte by Rumena Buzarovska ES
Country: Europe / North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
A vase is the trigger for Lydia to explode with jealousy over her best friend's life. Vesna, a university professor who tolerates her husband's infidelities and her son's indifference, is at an empowered women's event at the American ambassador's residence. Ellie returns to her childhood home with the secret hope of reuniting with her former lover. No one is safe from Rumena Buzarovska's intelligent, hyper-realistic, and poignant prose, which demonstrates in her new collection of short stories the impossibility of achieving happiness for those who fled their country, but also for those who sta... continue
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To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova EN
BulgariaDescription:
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin, Kassabova encounters a civilizational crossroads. The Lakes are set within the mountainous borderlands of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece, and crowned by the old Roman road, the via Egnatia. Once a trading and spiritual nexus of the southern Balkans, it remains one of Eurasia's oldest surviving religious melting pots. With their remote rock churches, chang... continue
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Ο Άντρας μου by Rumena Bužarovska GR
Country: Europe / North Macedonia
North Macedonia
Description:
Έντεκα γυναίκες μιλούν χωρίς ταμπού για την καθημερινότητά τους και τη σχέση με τους συντρόφους τους. Οι αφηγήτριες πλάθουν με τρόπο ανελέητο τα πορτρέτα των ανδρών παρουσιάζοντας τα ελαττώματά τους -μοιχοί, χειριστικοί, υποκριτές, βάναυσοι, απατεώνες, φαντασμένοι-, ενώ αποκαλύπτουν με τόλμη και τον εαυτό τους: τα σχέδια της ζωής τους, τις ήττες, τις ελπίδες, τις ψευδαισθήσεις, αλλά και τις αδυναμίες τους. Έντεκα ιστορίες, έντεκα παραλλαγές της πατριαρχίας, άλλοτε σκληρά ρεαλιστικές, άλλοτε σουρεαλιστικές ακόμα και αστείες, από τη Ρούμενα Μπουζάροφσκα (Βόρεια Μακεδονία, γενν. 1981), μια από τι... continue