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"Already an international sensation: a debut novel that tells 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 quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present day Finland, not just an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners, but a gay man in an unaccepting society. Aside from casual hookups, his only friend is a boa constrictor whom, improbably--he is terrified of snakes--he lets roam his apartment. But during a visit to a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat who moves in with him and his snake. It is this witty, charming, manipulative creature who starts Bekim on a journey back to Kosovo to confront his demons, and make sense of the magical, cruel, incredible history of his family. And it is this that, in turn, enables him finally, to open himself to true love--which he will find in the most unexpected place."--… (más)
Yugoslavia, años ochenta: Mientras el matrimonio concertado de Emine se desmorona, el país se desangra en una cruenta guerra. Décadas más tarde, su hijo Bekim es doblemente marginado en Finlandia, como inmigrante, y como homosexual. Su única compañía es una boa constríctor a la que deja deambular libremente por su apartamento, a pesar de su fobia a las serpientes. Una noche, en un bar gay, Bekim conoce a un gato que habla. Esta criatura ocurrente, veleidosa y manipuladora llevará a Bekim de vuelta a Kosovo para hacer frente a sus demonios y comprender su historia familiar -e, incluso, encontrar el amor. Pajtim Statovci, doctorando en Literatura Comparada en la Universidad de Helsinki, es un joven novelista finés de origen kosovar que ha sido galardonado con los premios literarios más prestigiosos de su país: el Finlandia, el Toisinkoinen y el Helsingin Sanomat. Su primera novela, "Mi gato Yugoslavia", ha sido publicada en diecisiete países.
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In order to see a picture of the town and understand it and its relation to the bridge clearly, it must be said that there was another bridge in the town and another river.
– Ivo Andrić, 'The bridge on the Drina' translated by Lovett F Edwards
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"Already an international sensation: a debut novel that tells 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 quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present day Finland, not just an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners, but a gay man in an unaccepting society. Aside from casual hookups, his only friend is a boa constrictor whom, improbably--he is terrified of snakes--he lets roam his apartment. But during a visit to a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat who moves in with him and his snake. It is this witty, charming, manipulative creature who starts Bekim on a journey back to Kosovo to confront his demons, and make sense of the magical, cruel, incredible history of his family. And it is this that, in turn, enables him finally, to open himself to true love--which he will find in the most unexpected place."--
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