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Literary Friction - Shame With Pajtim Statovci
Literary Friction
English - November 07, 2017 10:49 - 58 minutes - 135 MB - ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsArts politics comedy interview entrepreneurship business health news culture entrepreneur leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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From Adam and Eve to Hester Prynne to Cersie Lannister, characters in literature have been motivated by and undone by shame, so this month we decided to get up close and personal with this uncomfortable emotion. We spoke to author Pajtim Statovci about his brilliant first novel, My Cat Yugoslavia, which was originally published in Finnish in 2014. It tells the story of a young gay refugee from the Balkans, whose search for meaning in the midst of loneliness leads him to purchase a boa constrictor, in spite of his acute fear of snakes, and to befriend a talking cat he meets in a Helsinki gay bar.