Description
Two men, Arsim and Miloš, drift through a landscape marked by displacement, memory, and the uneasy promise of beginning again. When Arsim flees Pristina for Serbia, his life becomes intertwined with Miloš’s, and their paths repeatedly meet and separate—each convergence reopening questions of identity, loss, and what can be salvaged from a shattered past. Threaded through their search for one another is a re-created legend of a demonic serpent, Bolla, a dark, imaginative myth that evolves into a language for grief, longing, and survival. Blending lyrical intensity with unsettling invention, the novel explores exile and the power of stories—true or invented—to keep a person whole when the world refuses to hold steady.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber & Faber, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2022
216 pages
ISBN: 9780571361359
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Details
First Published
2019
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Bolla by Pajtim Statovci.