so-soI‘m a little irritated because I wanted to like this book more. It was well written, but the arguing between Mara and Lejla drove me crazy. I still loved Bastasic‘s imagery, and it was the winner of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature. I‘d say it‘s a So-So because of all the contention between the characters.
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Tonight's read. I love the imagery so far. Nighttime means switching over to ebook whenever possible.
so-soThis had echoes of the relationship between Elena and Lila in Elena Ferrante‘s Neapolitan Quartet. An intense and complicated female friendship, in which dislike and confusion seem as prevalent as the friendship. Sara has made a new life in Dublin, and has not heard from Lejla for 12-years. Yet when Lejla calls and demands help Sara drops everything and returns to Bosnia. This was a quick read, but not an easy one and left me with mixed feelings
pickBeautiful!
The story, the terror of the war that remains untold behind what is told, the female bond, the alternatives of the narrative, the references to contemporary Balkans. I loved everything.
Very happy with this new wave female authors from the region, creating female characters that you have already met in real life.
Got a belated birthday voucher yesterday and even if I do say do myself I made good use of the £10 kindle voucher. This 5 here followed by . . .
panTranslated by its author from the Serbo-Croatian, this novel started out promisingly but sadly went off the rails – or should I say off the road. Protagonist Sara, a Bosnian living in Dublin, hears from her childhood frenemy after more than a decade of estrangement; Lejla‘s long-disappeared brother is in Vienna, and she demands Sara drop everything, fly to Bosnia, and go with her to meet him there. The ensuing road trip quickly devolves into...
Book mail Tuesday —International Style! I love stories that enrich our understanding of lands we may never visit, & the people we may never encounter, but should.
“Lana Bastasic's powerful debut novel Catch the Rabbit is an emotionally rich excavation of the complicated friendship between two women in a fractured, post-war Bosnia as they venture into the treacherous terrain of the Balkan wonderlands and their own history.”
Sounds good, right?
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