My Cat Yugoslavia: A Novel

Kosovo-born Finnish writer Pajtim Statovci’s debut novel begins with a chap called blackhetero-helsinki prowling the internet in search of “fun and games”, continues with a lonely immigrant student getting into a relationship first with a boa constrictor and then a haughty cat he meets in a bar singing along to Cher’s Believe, and ends with a series of ruminations about the violence of men, of memory, of migration. If this sounds whimsical, don’t worry; My Cat Yugoslavia is a striking work about dislocation and estrangement that moves between science fiction, comic fable and trauma narrative without ever settling snugly into any of them.

Details

Subjects

Fiction

Type

Book

Place of publication

New York City

Publisher

Vintage Books

Year

2020

Number of pages

258 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780525432456

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

No

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

808.1 Sta

Volumes

1

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