Nakon Boga, Amerika
For several years in the late 1990s, Rumena Bužarovska lived in Phoenix, Arizona. More than twenty years later, she decided to return there and see how much her world had changed.
Hers? Yes, the world of her childhood, with which she is connected by authentic scents and concrete memories. The result of that return is the book "After God, America". In a formal sense, this is a hybrid that mixes memoir and personal essay, travelogue and short story. It is a diary that follows her journey through the southern United States, from Arizona to Key West in the far south of Florida, and then a little further north to Georgia in a ritual visit to the farm where Flannery O'Connor, the American writer whom Rumena translated into Macedonian, lived. Written with humor and vehemence, this Americana is one of the best of its kind, in the spirit of Joan Didion's essays, but in her description of the cultural and political anomalies of today's America, Bužarovska retains a sobering and incorruptible perspective from the side, the Macedonian or Balkan one, free from all illusions about today's world.
One copy is available
