peteg's blog - noise - books - 2018 06 04 Statovci MyCatYugoslavia

Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia.

Mon, Jun 04, 2018./noise/books | Link

Kindle. A young migrant Finnish author's tale of migration and not fitting in. He canvasses Albanian/Islamic marriage customs in a way that somewhat echoes Salman Rushdie (blood on the sheets and so forth). I didn't really get into it, beyond appreciating his portrait of Emine; I probably missed the allusions he was reaching for with the snakes and the cats. It is mercifully short.

Téa Obreht. Sukhdev Sandhu.