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Call Me Esteban

Lejla Kalamujic

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With unapologetic vividness, Lejla Kalamujic depicts pre- and post-war Sarajevo by charting a daughter coping with losing her mother, but discovering herself. From imagined conversations with Franz Kafka to cozy apartments, psychiatric wards, and cemeteries, Call Me Esteban is a piercing meditation on a woman grasping at memories in the name of claiming her identity.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Sandorf Passage
  • Publish Date: Sep 28th, 2021
  • Pages: 128
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.30in - 0.40in - 0.35lb
  • EAN: 9789533513249
  • Categories: • Women• LGBTQ+ - Lesbian

About the Author

Lejla Kalamujic is an award-winning queer writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Call Me Esteban received the Edo Budisa literary award in 2016 and it was the Bosnian-Herzegovinian nominee for the European Union Prize for Literature in the same year. Jennifer Zoble translates Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian- and Spanish-language literature. Her translation of Mars by Asja Bakic (Feminist Press, 2019) was selected by Publishers Weekly for the fiction list in its "Best Books 2019" issue. She contributed to the Belgrade Noir anthology (Akashic Books, 2020), and her work has been published in McSweeney's, Lit Hub, Words Without Borders, Washington Square, The Iowa Review, and The Baffler, among others. She's a clinical associate professor in the interdisciplinary Liberal Studies program at NYU.

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The first Fall title, Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić, drops next week, so we updated the site. Check out the four Fall books, and the Spring ones for that matter. Backlist, schmacklist. All books available to order from booksellers and @IPGbooknews. https://sandorfpassage.org/

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Praise for this book

"Stylish and brisk, these stories refuse to wallow in tragedy, becoming instead a convincing testament to the consolations of art." --Publishers Weekly starred review
"Think of Lejla Kalamujic's astonishing Call Me Esteban as a series of dispatches from a war-torn world. . . . The histories and memories refracted through Kalamujic's rigorous imagination, expertly translated by Jennifer Zoble, are unforgettable." --Christopher Merrill, author, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars
"There's an immediacy to Lejla Kalamujic's writing in Call Me Esteban, a haunting portrayal of what it means to live in a society that's been fragmenting for the vast majority of one's life." --Tobias Carroll, Words WIthout Borders
"There's an immediacy to Lejla Kalamuji​​c's writing in Call Me Esteban, a haunting portrayal of what it means to live in a society that's been fragmenting for the vast majority of one's life. The staccato prose and rapid-fire sentences on display help to further those ideas, as well as giving a sense of the narrator's anxiety--an experience that takes this book even further into a haunting space." -- Words Without Borders
"[A] haunting and unguarded novel . . . Where grief and love intersect is where Call Me Esteban takes us, to the emotions that arrive when we truly process the hardships we endure." --Costa B. Pappas, Fiction Writer's Review
"Playful yet piercing, these linked stories weave queer identity with the bitter aftertaste of the Balkan wars . . . Kalamujic takes autofiction to the next level." --Hamilton Cain, Oprah Daily

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