Summary
Namik Kabil: Amarcord
From the cover:
Amarcord. It is difficult to imagine a novel that would be suitable to carry Fellini's great title. And Namik Kabila's novel could only be called that: Amarcord. Some will say it's Amarcord with an ironic edge, but this reader thinks it's not. Like the first one, this Amarcord is a powerful and all-pervading apology of memory. In Kabila's case: memories of exile and what came before. I have not read a more beautiful refugee book in my language. Its beauty is in its simplicity, which we know in Namika Kabila even earlier, from the script for Žalica's film Kod amidje Idriz. He has a perfect command of detail, the words he wrote, but also those he kept silent, which creates such magic of the story that one will laugh at the same sentence, while the other will cry. And both will be right.
Miljenko Jergović
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