Balkans

[close] [ENG/FR] This is a bilingual book club to discover and discuss Eastern European Literature. We choose the books we read every other month ! Groupe de lecture bilingue pour découvrir et discuter de la littérature d'Europe de l'Est. Nouveaux livres à lire tous les 2 mois ! Liste des pays : Estonie / Lettonie / Lituanie / Pologne / Tchéquie / Slovaquie / Hongrie / Biélorussie / Ukraine / Russie / Moldavie / Roumanie / Bulgarie / Grèce / Macédoine / Serbie / Kosovo / Albanie / Monténégro / Bosnie / Slovénie / Croatie/ Chypre / Malte

[close] A group to discuss my forthcoming novel, Speaking to No. 4 (New Europe Books, Nov. 29). The book is available for pre-order, and bookstores can already get it in early November, but shipping for individuals will start at the end of November. Where is Alma? A future husband—No. 4—is desperately seeking his fiancée, who has disappeared. To locate her, he is interviewing her three former husbands, her sister, and ex sister-in-law. Could she be hiding in a French monastery? A Japanese shukubo (temple lodging)? Or maybe she is the victim of a belief in a Balkan creation myth? From America to France and Eastern Europe to Japan, this quest for a woman who has disappeared is both a psychological mystery and a meditation on our notions of space and architectural design. As husband No. 3, the Architect, says to husband-to-be No. 4, “Think of Japanese space as a novel in which the main character is absent.”

[close] Balto-Slavic+ / Balto-Slavs+ / Balto-Slavia+ Balto-Slavic+ | Northern European / White | Humankind Balto-Slavic+ / Balto-Slav+ / Balto-Slavonic+ / Wendish+ / Bohunk+ / "Eastern European"+ Rus / East Slavic Russian Belarusian Ukrainian Rusyn/Lemko West Slavic Lechitic Polish Sorbian Czecho-Slovak (Czechoslovak) Czech Slovak Hungarian South Slavic / Balkan / "South-East Europe" Yugoslav Serb-Montenegrin Serb Montenegrin --- Northern European (Mesolithic Hunther-Gatherer + 'Indo-European') / White White / European / Europoid / Euro-Siberian / Northern Eurasian. --- Caucasoid. --- proto-Caucasoid-Mongoloid / Eurasian. --- Homo Sapiens Sapiens. --- Humankind / Genus Homo. --- Primate --- (Social) Mammal --- Animal. --- Life (Carbon-Based Life). --- Matter+Energy.

[close] Many books have been written about the conflict known alternatively as the domovinski rat (“war of independence”), agresija protiv Republike BiH (“aggression against Bosnia”), and (in two acts), rat u bivšoj SFRJ (“war in the former Yugoslavia”) and albanski terorizam/NATO agresija (“Albanian terrorism/NATO aggression”) respectively, not to mention the lufta e Kosovës (“the Kosovo war”), and O maripe či anel khanikaske lačipe (“war is hell”). Or more commonly, the rat ("war"). Such books are mostly written by journalists and politicians (as concerns the view from the outside looking in), or politicians and soldiers (for the local view). But rarely do the twain meet, and as a result there is still more confusion and misinformation in the ether concerning the war, than there is clarity and resolution. But what actually happened? Please share books, in any language, that you have found cast a genuine light on the Yugoslav Wars.