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Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2018
How to be a Kosovan Bride opens up something entirely new to the reader: the history, culture and stories of one of the newest countries in the world. It weaves together Albanian folktale, stories of Kosovan experience of the war in 1999 and a look into the lives of modern-day Kosovan women.
The dark undercurrent of Albanian blood feuds underpins a story about the impact of war and the way that new life can emerge from darkness.
It is characterised by striking imagery and daring form.
Info autore
Naomi Hamill was born in Wales in 1979 but she moved to Hampshire aged six and lost her Welsh accent almost instantly.
How to be a Kosovan Bride is her first novel. Naomi is a secondary school teacher living in Manchester. She visits Kosovo each summer and loves eating flija, a giant Kosovan pancake.
Riassunto
This debut novel is about the transformation of two young women and about the way that a nation changes and develops after war. It evokes a specific, undiscovered place. It is characterised by striking imagery and daring form.
Relazione
_____ Hamill's writing is nothing short of extraordinary. She writes in a style scarcely encountered in fiction, addressing the reader as 'you' throughout the novel, and thus managing to make us feel unnerved that we have not done more to liberate women like the Returned Girl and the Kosovan Wife. This guilt adds to the sympathy we already feel for the protagonists, with their lack of names and characteristics failing to stop us connecting with them. The stories of the recent war are equally harrowing, and once again, the lack of the specific names of those they feature only serves to make them more moving, as we realise they could have been experienced by almost anyone who suffered through the conflict.
Em Richardson The Bookbag
