senqin 's review for:

Bolla by Pajtim Statovci

5.0

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There I will see you again and everything will start over from the beginning, nothing that happened or didn't happen between us matters, and there will be no sense of time, no earth that will not carry us, no wars no beliefs no people to push us apart...

★★★★★

One of those books where after you finish, you just lay there on the floor staring at the ceiling for an hour, trying to recover from the way it has so utterly hollowed you out. I'm reeling.

Spoiler

One of the main characters is, frankly, an absolutely despicable human being who ruins the lives of the people who love him and in doing so screws over himself as well. And YET

I could not bring myself to put this story down. There's just so many layers to these characters, so much humanity and so many facets of their personalities and their actions that are left up to the reader to interpret, that it makes for a fascinating albeit devastating and heartbreaking read. However, I don't think I could ever bring myself to revisit this ever again just because of how bleak and emotionally draining it was. There's something so raw and gorgeous about the writing though (I've highlighted like half the book), and the audiobook performance is simply phenomenal.

— ♩♫♩ ~ ktM7