{"product_id":"9781782273608","title":"My Cat Yugoslavia - David Hackston","description":"\u003cp\u003eA strange,haunting, and utterly original exploration of displacement and desire' -- T�aObreht, author of The Tiger's Wife, New York TimesBook Review'Fearless, delicate, beautiful, sad,haunting and wonderful. A brilliant novel that mesmerizes with both itshumanity and its utter uniqueness' -- JeffVanderMeerIn 1980s Yugoslavia, a young girl namedEmine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But soon her country is torn apartby war, and she is forced to flee with her family. Decadeslater Emine's son, Bekim, has grown up a social outcast in a country suspiciousof foreigners. Aside from casual hook-ups, his only companion is a pet boaconstrictor - until one night in a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat. It isthis witty, charming, manipulative creature that starts him on a journey backto Kosovo to confront his demons and make sense of the remarkable, cruelhistory of his family. And soon he learns that love can be found in the mostunexpected places.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Hackston","offers":[{"title":"272 pages \/ 19\/04\/2018 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56970414948727,"sku":"9781782273608","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781782273608_a476356a-0b73-4f6f-9380-32644570eec9.jpg?v=1779380864","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781782273608","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}