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Bolla
- Author
- Pajtim Statovci
- Narrator
- Michael Crouch, Tyler Kent
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 7 April 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
It is April, 1995.
Kosovo is a country on the cusp of a dreadful war. Arsim is twenty-two, newly married, cautious - an Albanian trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Until he encounters Milos, a Serb, and begins a life in secret.
Bolla is the story of what happens when passion and history collide - when a relationship, already forbidden and laced with danger, is ripped apart by war and migration, separated by nations and fate.
What happens when you are forced to live a life that is not yours, so far from your desires?
Can the human remain?
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Details
- Author
- Pajtim Statovci
- Narrator
- Michael Crouch, Tyler Kent
- Duration
- 5 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 April 2022
- ISBN
- 9780571373932
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Fiction in translation, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
It is April, 1995. Kosovo is a country on the cusp of a dreadful war. Arsim is twenty-two, newly married, cautious - an Albanian trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Until he encounters Milos, a Serb, and begins a life in secret. Bolla is the story of what happens when passion and history collide - when a relationship, already forbidden and laced with danger, is ripped apart by war and migration, separated by nations and fate. What happens when you are forced to live a life that is not yours, so far from your desires? Can the human remain?
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