First published:
2016
ISBN: 978-608-4770-87-9
Pages: 171
Format:
Cover: Paperback
Language: Macedonian
Translations: Slovenian, Bulgarian, Polish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian and English. Excerpts available in Italian and French.
Genre: Fiction, novel
Synopsis
A story about the grandmother Nedeljka from Split who moved to Sicily after the Second World War because of her love for the Italian Carlo. Through the imagined dialogue with her eponymous niece Nedeljka, the novel deals with topics such as the inevitability of fate, the relationship between granddaughter and grandmother, the different ways of life in different socio-economic geographical conditions, identity, home and homelessness as a state of mind, political ideologies, the role of women in different societies and among many other themes as well as themes of love and death/war.
Reviews
Dimkovska's novella Non-Oui leaves a deep, at times, painful impression and a series of essential questions, open as a lifelong challenge. The question of our (voluntary or forced) stay in languages is just one of them! And, in turn, that question, equally, refers to staying in one's native language, and not only in a foreign, newly adopted (linguistic-cultural) idiom.
Elizabetaa Šeleva
