First published:
2021
ISBN: 978-608-65898-4-4
Pages: 144
Format:
Cover: Paperback
Language: Macedonian
Translations:
Genre: Photo book
Synopsis
I Write a Short Story in My Head is a collection of short stories and a photobook, a coauthorship with Saso Dimoski. The stories in this book were written in a period of some fifty days and initially published on Facebook. In the period of the last days of author’s mother, until the fortieth day after her death, they are compressed memories and thoughts initiated by this event. In the book, they are completed by Dimoski’s photos via free associations, carefully selected and woven into and placed on the pages of this book. Most of the 115 photos are from the photo archives of Dimoski, but there are also documentary photos from the family archives of Bakovska. The book was awarded as the most creative issue by the Macedonian Association of Publishers (MAI) in 2022.
Reviews
The book “I Write a Short Story in My Head” is a prose, lyrical, life “sandwich of children and adults, first as a filling, then as a bun”; a book about parents and their children who have become parents themselves; about a mother and a daughter who has become a mother… a book about the last days of the life and the first days of the death; the short period of our lives when we play both roles in life: we are somebody’s child, and somebody’s parent; a visual-textual-emotional map of an existence or most of all: a true literary Via Dolorosa of Bakovska, which she in her 42nd story says is equal to the “road from the kitchen to the bedroom” and that is “two weeks long”; I would add that it is endless and timeless, an impressive elevation on the map of the most recent Macedonian literature
Olivera Kjorveziroska, “Literary Via Dolorosa, 2021
