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About Pajtim Statovci
See more books from this AuthorAs it is, though, the creature turns out to be a complex character, tormented as well as a tormentor. And that’s not to speak of Bekim’s pet snake, who has dangerous ideas of his own. Allegorical but matter-of-fact: a fine debut, layered with meaning and shades of sorrow.
Read Full Review of My Cat Yugoslavia: A Novel | See more reviews from KirkusIt wouldn't be surprising if his next book succeeds where this one fails. But My Cat Yugoslavia, though clever in parts, is, unfortunately, too unpolished and immature to be considered anything more than a valiant attempt.
Read Full Review of My Cat Yugoslavia: A Novel | See more reviews from NPRBut it is faint criticism to say there should be more of a book, and Statovci’s literary gifts are prodigious. His sentences are lean and precise.
Read Full Review of My Cat Yugoslavia: A Novel | See more reviews from NY TimesMore often, and in no small part due to David Hackston’s elegant translation, this is a memorably disconcerting novel, a kind of literary Let the Right One In; a book about skin and sweat and the ruptured blisters of history.
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