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Kicaj_Jehona (c) Carl Philipp Roth
Jehona Kicaj Carl Philipp Roth

Jehona Kicaj

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Literaturhaus Basel

ë traces a poignant journey between languages, fractured identities, and the enduring trauma of the Kosovo War. Our narrator, the daughter of Kosovan refugees, embarks on a dual search: for a language to contain her experience and for a voice of her own. Growing up in Germany, her quest for understanding is met instead with reductive labels, cultural ignorance, and pervasive indifference. When the Kosovo War erupts in the late 1990s, she watches on from the safety of her home. Yet decades later, she finds that for the diaspora, the war is not past: it lives on in the silence of missing relatives and the anonymity of mass graves - a history that refuses to pass. «A breathtaking debut novel.» (Die Presse)

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Author: Jehona Kicaj
Moderation: Ivna Žic

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