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Crossing

A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2019`Devastating… the brutal beauty of Crossing comes from its almost cellular understanding of belonging and exclusion, love and cruelty` Guardian`Fierce, dazzling and heartbreaking` NoViolet BulawayoFrom the author of My Cat YugoslaviaBujar`s world is collapsing. His father is dying and his homeland, Albania, bristles with hunger and unrest. When his fearless friend Agim is discovered wearing his mother`s red dress and beaten with his father`s belt, he persuades Bujar to flee.This is the beginning of a journey across cities, borders and identities as the young pair seek to forge a new life.Pursued by memories of their homeland and echoes of childhood folk tales, they risk losing themselves in the struggle to leave their pasts behind.