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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
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
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