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From the celebrated author of Crossing, a finalist for the National Book Award, a piercingly honest novel about a man haunted by the violence of his past and a family ruptured by the war that ravaged their homeland, for readers of Douglas Stuart, Jenny Erpenbeck, Ocean Vuong, and Garth Greenwell...

It is April 1995. Kosovo is a country on the cusp of a dreadful war. Arsim is 22, newly married, cautious - an Albanian trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Until he encounters Milos, a Serb, and begins a life in secret. Bolla is the story of what happens when passion and history collide - when a relationship, already forbidden and laced with danger, is ripped apart by war and migration, separated by nations and fate.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST From the acclaimed author of My Cat Yugoslavia: a stunning, incandescent new novel that speaks to identity, war, exile, love, betrayal, and heartbreak The death of head of state Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist...

A love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes...

From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. “Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first...

Bujar inventa continuamente se stesso e la propria storia, come un impostore che si appropria dei frammenti che carpisce agli altri, del passato delle persone che ha amato, dei loro nomi, perché può scegliere chi vuole essere, il paese da cui proviene, i dettagli della propria esistenza. Perché, come dice lui stesso, «nessuno è tenuto a rimanere la persona che è nata, possiamo ricomporci come un nuovo puzzle».