Call Me Esteban - by Lejla Kalamujic (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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, <i>Call Me Esteban</i> is a piercing meditation on a woman grasping at memories in the name of claiming her identity.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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, <i>Oprah Daily</i><br><br>"There's an immediacy to Lejla Kalamujic's writing in <i>Call Me Esteban</i>, 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." -- <b>Words Without Borders</b><br><br>"There's an immediacy to Lejla Kalamujic's writing in <i>Call Me Esteban</i>, 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<i>, Words WIthout Borders</i><br><br>"Stylish and brisk, these stories refuse to wallow in tragedy, becoming instead a convincing testament to the consolations of art." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> starred review<br><br>"Think of Lejla Kalamujic's astonishing <i>Call Me Esteban</i> 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, <i>Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Lejla Kalamujic</b> is an award-winning queer writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. <i>Call Me Esteban</i> 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. <b>Jennifer Zoble</b> translates Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian- and Spanish-language literature. Her translation of <i>Mars </i>by Asja Bakic (Feminist Press, 2019) was selected by <i>Publishers Weekly</i> for the fiction list in its "Best Books 2019" issue. She contributed to the <i>Belgrade Noir</i> anthology (Akashic Books, 2020), and her work has been published in <i>McSweeney's, Lit Hub, Words Without Borders, Washington Square, The Iowa Review</i>, and <i>The Baffler</i>, among others. She's a clinical associate professor in the interdisciplinary Liberal Studies program at NYU.
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