Adulterers, cheats, hypocrites, bad seeds--in My Husband, Rumena Buzarovska turns her wry and razor-sharp gaze on men, and on the lives of the women who suffer them.In these eleven devastatingly precise and psychologically unsettling stories, we follow the female protagonists' thwarted attempts at intimacy, ranging from pretense, to denial, to violent and ultimately self-destructive acts. This smart, funny, provocative collection demonstrates the profound skills that have made Rumena Buzarovska one of the finest contemporary writers of short fiction in Macedonia. This story collection Mojot Maz in Croatian (My Husband in English), won the Edo Budisa Award for Best Short Story Collection.Author: Rumena BuzarovskaPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 01/28/2020Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30dISBN: 9781628973457About the AuthorRumena Buzarovska has published has published four collections of short stories. Her stories "Waves" and "Lily" have appeared in Best European Fiction 2016 and Contemporary Macedonian Fiction, respectively, both published by Dalkey Archive Press. She is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Skopje. Paul Filev is a literary translator from Macedonian and Spanish to English. His translations include the novels Alma Mahler by Sasho Dimoski (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018), Blue Label by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles, and the anthology Contemporary Macedonian Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press, 2019. He lives in Melbourne.
