Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia MIT Press From the Editors

From the Editors

It is the second in a series of volumes titled An Archaeology of Listening

In this collection of 21 original poems

and historian Nathaniel Flakin dedicate this book to Rosa Luxemburg

Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia MIT Press From the EditorsIn 1980s Yugoslavia, a young girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But soon her country is torn apart by war, and she is forced to flee with her family. Decades later Emines son, Bekim, has grown up a social outcast in a country suspicious of foreigners. Aside from casual hook ups, his only companion is a pet boa constrictor until one night in a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat. It is this witty, charming, manipulative creature