Contemporary Macedonian Fiction Apocalypse blending social realism with lush

blending social realism with lush modernist experiment

Reading Ivan Ângelo's The Celebration by Theodore McDermott

Try as he might to salvage the relationship

an elderly widow invites her even older sister to live with her

"Mosley's very special talent is for describing the sensations experienced within a cocoon of dismay and terror" - Sunday Times

Contemporary Macedonian Fiction Apocalypse blending social realism with lushThe stories included in this anthology of Macedonian fiction introduce English Language readers to a literary culture that has too long been overlooked. Ranging form the melancholy realism of Rumena Buarovska's "Lily" to surreal fantasias like Tomislav Osmanli's "Strained"in which a stressed out businessman eats his own computerthese texts paint a portrait of a country in constant transformation, still haunted by the Yugoslav past but quickly hurtling