Summary
Bekim Sejranović: The Better End
The hero of The Better End retired to his grandfather's cabin on a Bosnian mountain. In it, he tries to recover after the dramatic breakdown of his love story with a Norwegian woman who has always been weak towards men from the former Yugoslavia, and for that she paid quite a price. As he remembers his former life, trying to understand what really happened, a new story begins, on a snow-covered mountain, while only Wahhabis who live in a nearby abandoned village pass by his log cabin. At the center of it is a woman again, and the road leads our heroes back to Oslo.
Telling two stories, one backwards and the other forwards, one that takes place in Norway and the other in Bosnia, Bekim Sejranović gets under the skin of his hero. It convincingly portrays his traumas, emotional insecurity, existential fear, drug addiction, sexual dysfunction, while managing to be both lucid and incredibly funny.
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