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Overview
The stories that Paul Filev has collected in this anthology of Macedonian fiction introduce English-language readers to a literature that has long been overlooked. Ranging from melancholy realism, such as Rumena Buzarovska's "Lily," to surreal fantasias, such as Tomislav Osmanli's "Strained," in which a stressed-out businessman eats his own computer, these texts provide a portrait of a country in constant transformation, still haunted by the Yugoslav past but quickly hurtling into the technocratic future. Comic and tragic, po-faced and hysterical, Contemporary Macedonian Fiction allows us to discover some of the most exciting young writers at work today.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781628972818
- ISBN-10: 1628972815
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: October 2019
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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