Bolla

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'Devastating in the most beautiful ways.' - Torrey Peters'Superb . . . Statovci is a major talent.' - New York Times Book Review


It is April 1995. Kosovo is a country on the cusp of a dreadful war. Arsim in twenty-two, 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.


'A pitch perfect excavation of the vandalism of war, the wounds of love and the limits of the human soul.' - Eimear McBride

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PAJTIM STATOVCI was born in Kosovo to Albanian parents in 1990. His family fled the Yugoslav wars and moved to Finland when he was two years old. He holds an MA in comparative literature and is a PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki. His first book, My Cat Yugoslavia, won the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize for best debut novel; his second novel, Crossing, was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Bolla was awarded Finland's highest literary honor, The Finlandia Prize. In 2018, he received the Helsinki Writer of the Year Award.www.pajtimstatovci.com