- National Book Award for Translated Literature 2019 · Finalist · for the translation by David Hackston
Crossing
Tiranan sydän
Pajtim Statovci (born 1990)
Translated by David Hackston
English editions
In EnglishCrossing
Pushkin Press · United Kingdom · 2020 · Paperback · 272 pages
Crossing
Pantheon Books · United States · 2 April 2019 · Hardcover · 272 pages
Crossing
Pushkin Press · United Kingdom · 2019 · Hardcover · 272 pages
Crossing
Vintage · United States · 24 March 2020 · Paperback · 272 pages
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As Albania's dictatorship falls and disorder spreads, Bujar's father dies and his friend Agim feels trapped in a body that is not his; the two boys run for the coast, meaning to reach the West. Years on, in Rome around 2000, a young man will say anything for a fresh identity, and after drifting across continents he makes a home in Finland.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 271 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Albania, Italy, Finland, 1990s–2000s
- First published
- 2016 by Otava
- Author's age
- 26 when first published
- ISBN
9789511297239 (original)
9781524747497 (Pantheon Books, United States)
9781782275107 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)
9780525563013 (Vintage, United States)
9781782275121 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)
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