6/24/2023 0 Comments Crossing by pajtim statovci![]() ![]() ![]() But faced with marginalization at home and only precarious means of escape and survival, what chance do the young pair have of forging a new life? Pursued by memories of home and echoes of folk tales, they risk losing themselves in the struggle to leave their pasts behind. It is also a search through shifting gender and social personae, for acceptance and love. This is the beginning of a journey across cities, borders and identities, from the bazaars of Tirana to the monuments of Rome and the drag bars of New York. Read more Desperate for a chance to shape their own lives, they flee. ![]() When his fearless friend Agim is discovered wearing his mother's red dress and beaten with his father's belt, he persuades Bujar that there is no place for them in their country. ![]() His father is dying and his homeland, Albania, bristles with hunger and unrest. "Crossing will devour you this is some fierce, dazzling, and heartbreaking s**t" NoViolet Bulawayo "A novel that dazzles and mesmerizes, and the reader, upon finishing, may have the extraordinary sensation that his or her own dreams have been scattered along the journey, beckoning for rereading" Yiyun Li Bujar's world is collapsing. Crossing is a deeply timely and deeply necessary novel about war, exile, and identity in all its complex permutations. ![]()
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