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Jehona Kicaj (born 1991)
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Her family flees Kosovo shortly before the war of 1998, and the narrator grows up in Germany: kindergarten, school, university. Everywhere she looks for understanding and a voice of her own, and everywhere she meets labels, cluelessness and ignorance. She follows the war from a safe distance, yet it reaches the diaspora too, through relatives killed and buried in unmarked graves, many of them still missing. A disorder of her jaw that leaves her without speech becomes the starting point of her search for words. The title is an Albanian letter that matters even though it mostly goes unspoken.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 169 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Migration, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, Kosovo
- First published
- 2025 by Wallstein Verlag
- Author's age
- 34 when first published
- ISBN
9783835359499 (original)
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