Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes
us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, is
trying to change the world and write a novel. She, a passable actress, has
given up her safe job at the theatre to care for their child. He is delirious,
she is on edge. With the rent overdue and violence looming on all sides, the
two of them circle one another in a dizzying dance towards the abyss.
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‘When I first met Ivana Sajko and heard and
read her writing, I instantly knew it was something special. I felt the force
of her language, the pain of love and war, and I was stung by her clear and
poetic Sajko sound.’ Clemens Meyer
'Wow, what an incredible novel. The
language! Thank you for publishing this book.' Katja Schneider, stories! bookshop, Hamburg
‘A sound that tells of political and
economic vacuums felt by people in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and the former
Yugoslavia to this day.’ MDR Kultur