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A review by prolixity
My Husband by Rumena Bužarovska
4.0
I really enjoyed this collection of stories. The flap copy describes the running theme as women's "thwarted attempts at intimacy", and I think that's a pretty good way to put it. Marriage is thoroughly skewered in My Husband, as every story shows a new and horrifying way that miscommunication, contempt, disgust, despair, or fear can cause a couple's (or a family's) downfall.
There's a deep psychological fissure at the heart of each of these stories. A husband's cruelty, a wife's overweening vanity, a mother's deep distrust of her own young son. They're all well-written but not ornate, just very elegant and sleek pieces of fiction, chilling and unsettling.
Children, friends, and, of course, the reader are all caught up in the wake of these black-hole couplings, and you'll probably find yourself glad (as I was) that this is such a short book.
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Global Challenge: North Macedonia
There's a deep psychological fissure at the heart of each of these stories. A husband's cruelty, a wife's overweening vanity, a mother's deep distrust of her own young son. They're all well-written but not ornate, just very elegant and sleek pieces of fiction, chilling and unsettling.
Children, friends, and, of course, the reader are all caught up in the wake of these black-hole couplings, and you'll probably find yourself glad (as I was) that this is such a short book.
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Global Challenge: North Macedonia