The Summer Without You
Translated from Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer.
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- Paperback published on 03/08/2024
- Page count: 108 pages
- ISBN: 9781914595813
Quick take
The short novel by Petar Andonovski, The Summer Without You, tells a complex story of three men enmeshed in a love relationship. It is a novel about the internal struggles, about alienation between partners, about the enduring search for truth. But it is also a novel about family and provincialism.
Synopsis
A story of time slipping, desire just out of reach, like memories lost…
At the beginning of the summer, I had to spend two weeks in hospital… If I hadn’t fallen from the balcony, what happened later would likely never have happened at all.
So begins a memoir by a man trying to come to terms with the loss of a lover who is now a famous writer. He is given one more chance to forget by Vlado, the charismatic actor, who is not as successful as he believes. They will have a holiday to recover – find the lost love between them and bury their shared memories of Ivan. It will be a summer without you.
About the author
Petar Andonovski was born in 1987, in Kumanovo, north Macedonia. He studied general and comparative literature at the Faculty of Philology, at the University of Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. He has published one poetry collection and four novels. In 2015 his novel The Body One Must Live In won the national award for Novel of the Year. Fear of Barbarians received the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature.
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