My Husband (Macedonian Literature)

I really enjoyed this collection of stories. The flap copy describes the running theme as women's "thwarted attempts at intimacy", and I think that's a pretty good way to put it. Marriage is thoroughly skewered in My Husband, as every story shows a new and horrifying way that miscommunication, contempt, disgust, despair, or fear can cause a couple's (or a family's) downfall.

There's a deep psychological fissure at the heart of each of these stories. A husband's cruelty, a wife's overweening vanity, a mother's deep distrust of her own young son. They're all well-written but not ornate, just very elegant and sleek pieces of fiction, chilling and unsettling.

Children, friends, and, of course, the reader are all caught up in the wake of show more these black-hole couplings, and you'll probably find yourself glad (as I was) that this is such a short book.

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Global Challenge: North Macedonia show less

Un recueil de nouvelles macédoniennes, quelle heureuse surprise ici. Écrites par une femme, en plus. Je veux !

Et c’est très drôle (bon, pas toujours, il y a aussi des drames). On sent quelques petites différences culturelles, des relations de couples un poil plus tradi que dans la littérature française, et ces onze portraits de maris (et amants) brossés par leurs épouses (et maîtresses (et autres complications)) sont pour la plupart très réussis.

Cap sur la Macédoine du Nord où souffle un vent d’émancipation, de liberté et de vie !

Des nouvelles où se côtoient le rire, le drame, le malaise, la viande et le sexe… la vie, donc