{"id":3277,"date":"2021-02-17T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2023-12-21T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T13:21:13","slug":"twenty-years-silence-is-the-new-novel-by-bora-balaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/twenty-years-silence-is-the-new-novel-by-bora-balaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years silence is the new novel by Bora Balaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bora Balaj Has published a new novel &#8220;Twenty years silence&#8221;. The novel is translated by Jeton Kelmendi and edited by the British writer\u00a0<em>Christopher Lawrence. <\/em>It is a very interesting novel, where the author writes for the violence in Kosovo during the war in Kosovo. Done here is the introduction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By Christopher Lawrence, UK<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nAfter the death of Tito, the former Yugoslavia a collective of republics put together after World War 2 , slowly fell into conflict Slovenia and Croatia called for decentralisation then declared independence on June 25th 1991 and by 1992 the ethnic cleansing by Serb forces<br \/>\nbegan , with this brutal backdrop Bora Balaj has crafted a story of Kosovo in a crisis , a struggle for the liberation of Albanians soon to be driven out by conflict , threats, rape<br \/>\nand genocide.\u00a0With a bright confidence in words and language a story told from the heart about Lola a bride to be of the summer, to her promised Flamur, found with the conflict<br \/>\nresonating by the Serbian presence that she would be\u00a0swallowed up and suffocated.<br \/>\nSeeing monsters where coming and at the hands of these\u00a0monsters Albanian women would feel indignation, humiliation and a lasting pain of defilement.<br \/>\nThe ineffective peacekeepers could not protect the population, we have a love story , a war story, emigration and being reconciled it punches i the gut being a conflict<br \/>\nof recent memory to a lot of people, filling news channels with horrific images.<br \/>\nI read this book and to me it resonated deeply with complex emotions and a sense of completion, Bora Bala\u00a0gives us something rooted in truth a truth many do not<br \/>\nwant to face but it is there part of our history and dna. Kosovo a land of its own identity provides the stage for this to play out, for us as almost voyeurs to look into the<br \/>\nlove, the life, of a world unsure and distorted by war.<br \/>\nLola loved Flamur the kindling flame of love lit , but it was so uncertain in so many ways , that escape was the only option torn from home and country , each path Lola<br \/>\nis taking , circular navigating one route back\u00a0Finding peace will be hard, being able to love again harder.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bora Balaj Has published a new novel &#8220;Twenty years silence&#8221;. The novel is translated by Jeton Kelmendi and edited by the British writer\u00a0Christopher Lawrence. It is a very interesting novel, where the author writes for the violence in Kosovo during the war in Kosovo. Done here is the introduction Introduction By Christopher Lawrence, UK After [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,167],"tags":[],"book_author":[],"book_publisher":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3889,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"book_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_author?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"book_publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_publisher?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}