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  • Underground Barbie

    Translated by Ena Selimovic ...
    A darkly humorous coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Yugoslav Wars.As air-raid sirens become commonplace, children in an apartment building escape into a world of Barbie dolls, improvising scenarios that mirror the splintering social structure of 1990s Yugoslavia. Innocence clashes with the horrors of war and the allure of Western consumerism.Maša Kolanović's Underground Barbie ... Read more

    $19.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dogs

    by Dora Šustic ...
    Translated by Ena Selimovic ...
    We meet the protagonist of Dogs, Dora, on a train, traveling to Prague where she will attend film school in the hopes that she will get everything she wants from life: " knowledge, freedom, sex, work, success, love, and money." It does not take long for Dora to discover sex, and what she thinks is love, in the form of a charismatic older photographer. For Dora, this is her first great true love, ... Read more

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2023

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  • The Ministry of Pain

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