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Bolla
- Title
- Bolla / Pajtim Statovci ; translated from the Finnish by David Hackston.
- Author
- Statovci, Pajtim, 1990-
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hackston, David
- Description
- 222 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "From the author of Crossing--a National Book Award finalist--comes a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-two-year-old, 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, a Serb. 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. After these febrile beginnings, Arsim and Milos's unlikely affair is derailed by the outbreak of war, which sends Arsim's fledgling family abroad and the timid Milos spiraling down a dark path. Years later, deported back to Pristina after a spell in prison, Arsim, alone and hopeless, finds himself in a broken reality that completely questions his past. Entwined with their story is a recreated legend of a demonic serpent, Bolla: an unearthly tale that gives Arsim and Milos a language through which to reflect what they once had. With luminous prose and a delicate eye, Statovci delivers a relentless novel of desire, destruction, intimacy, and the different fronts of war"--
- Uniform Title
- Bolla. English
- Alternative Title
- Bolla.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Gay fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Note
- "Originally published in Finland by Kustannusosakeybriö Otava, Keuruu, in 2019. Copyright ©2019 by Pajtim Statovci and Kustannusosakeybriö Otava."--Verso. 500
- "English translation copyright ©2021 by David Hackston"--Title page verso
- Call Number
- JFD 21-2865
- ISBN
- 9781524749200
- 1524749206
- LCCN
- 2020052280
- OCLC
- 1200306810
- Author
- Statovci, Pajtim, 1990- author.
- Title
- Bolla / Pajtim Statovci ; translated from the Finnish by David Hackston.
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1980-2008
- Added Author
- Hackston, David, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Statovci, Pajtim, 1990- Bolla. New York : Pantheon Books, 2021 9781524749217 (DLC) 2020052281
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-2865