Beyond Borders Book Club - I'm Not Going Anywhere, featuring an appearance by author Rumena Buzarovska

Book: I'm Not Going Anywhere

Author: Rumena Buzarovska - in-person at the Beyond Borders Book Club session

Host: Keith Brown - Director, ASU Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies; Professor, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies

ABOUT THE BOOK

In her latest translated volume, Buzarovska delivers more of what established her as one of the most interesting writers working in Europe today. Already a bestseller across her native North Macedonia, this is an unsentimental and hyperrealist collection in which Macedonians leave their country of origin to escape bleakness—only to find new kinds of desolation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rumena Buzarovska is a fiction writer and literary translator from Skopje, North Macedonia. Buzarovska's short stories have been translated into several languages. "Waves" and "Lily" appeared in Best European Fiction 2016 and Contemporary Macedonian Fiction.

ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB @ Tempe Public Library

In this book group, we will read fiction by a range of award-winning authors based at the edges of the European Union, who draw from experience to imagine border-crossing and the encounter with an alien world, from a range of perspectives. Tackling themes of mobility, curiosity and identity, these authors invite us to empathize with characters determined to make meaning out of fractured and divided lives. Across East Europe, a majority of citizens live less than two hours by car from the edge of their country. The challenge, excitement and risk of crossing into a different culture, history, language and worldview have captured the attention of writers, including those in countries that have joined the European Union, and those where international travel requires enormous sacrifices.