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“While I was killing him, I had to wipe my mouth with my sleeve every now and then because I couldn’t stop salivating.”

Mars by Asja Bakić

October 25, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Anything can become normal, if you continue to stick through it. War, murder, cults, doppelgängers, being deported to Mars- whatever world you are dropped into becomes your world. Asja Bakić is a master of normalcy in abnormal times and places. Her short story collection, Mars, is filled to the gills with the weird becoming common place. I was originally drawn to this collection for less than academic reasons: it is short and it has a pretty corner! I was looking to race through my Bingo card, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #writing, Asja Bakić, bosnia, Creepy, croatia, dark humor, dystopia, Green, International, jennifer zoble, magical realism, refugee experience, short read, the feminist press, translated lit, war

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:111 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #writing, Asja Bakić, bosnia, Creepy, croatia, dark humor, dystopia, Green, International, jennifer zoble, magical realism, refugee experience, short read, the feminist press, translated lit, war ·
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Nowhere Story

September 16, 2014 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

I truthfully don’t know how to write a review about a book like this. On the one hand, I feel compelled to defend my intellectual capacity to analyze literature, but on the other hand, I kind of just want to admit that I don’t get it. On the surface, there’s not that much to “get.” Nowhere Man is comprised of several stories at different times from different viewpoints that all describe the life of Josef Pronek, a Bosnian ex-pat who moves to Chicago in his third or […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: aleksandar hemon, alwaysanswerb, bosnia, contemporary, literary fiction, Ukraine

alwaysanswerb's CBR6 Review No:64 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: aleksandar hemon, alwaysanswerb, bosnia, contemporary, literary fiction, Ukraine ·
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