Pajtim Statovci

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 is twenty-two, newly married, cautious - an Albanian trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an...

Yugoslavia, 1980s: a 16-year-old Muslim girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But what was meant to be a happy match soon goes terribly wrong. Her country is torn apart by war, and she flees with her family. Decades later, Emine's son, Bekim, has grown up a social outcast in Finland; both an immigrant in...