![]() ![]() ![]() In alternating chapters, Bekim’s mother, Emine, narrates her own tale, starting with her girlhood in Yugoslavia-specifically, in Kosovo, near the capital Prishtina. Over the course off the novel, Bekim buys a boa constrictor in an attempt to commit to something meets and moves in with a humanoid cat who becomes his lover and abuser takes a trip to the former Yugoslavia, the country of his birth, perhaps in an attempt to heal and last but not least, meets another man back in Finland, falls in love, and purposefully sabotages the relationship at its peak for no apparent reason other than fear. ![]() This is only the first episode in a long battle with intimacy. The man comes over, the two have sex, and though the encounter is mutually enjoyable, narrator Bekim gets spooked and asks the man to leave. In the novel’s opening scene, he meets a man in what is clearly an m4m chatroom or some version of Grindr. He has zero interest in his studies, works a dull job to support himself, and in general seems rather lost. The mystery starts out with the narrators-there are two-and continues with the surrealist elements of the plot, such as a talking gay cat.īekim is a young man living in Finland and taking university courses, though he seems unclear as to why. There is much that is mysterious in Pajtim Statovci’s debut novel, My Cat Yugoslavia, originally written in Finnish and translated by David Hackston. ![]()
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