Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia magazine including Naguib Mahfouz

including Naguib Mahfouz

In an unnamed coastal city home to many refugees

This collection of poems is offered to every soul who still believes in their own humanity

Words and sentences fuse or break apart

I don't mean to get all

Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia magazine including Naguib MahfouzIn 1980s Yugoslavia, a young girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But soon her country is torn apart by war, and she is forced to flee with her family. Decades later Emines son, Bekim, has grown up a social outcast in a country suspicious of foreigners. Aside from casual hook ups, his only companion is a pet boa constrictor until one night in a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat. It is this witty, charming, manipulative creature