Chiamatemi Esteban

Lejla Kalamujić, an emerging voice in Balkan literature, puts together twenty-two short stories in a single narrative flow to describe the dissolution of a family and her country, the former Yugoslavia. Call me Esteban, an award-winning book, published in Italy by Nutrimenti, traces the protagonist Lejla’s gradual loss of reference points: her mother’s untimely death and her father’s alcoholism, her grandparents’ aging, the war and, eventually, the mental institution. Her love for a girl is the beginning of a complicated but bright rise from the abyss. An intense and emotional travel journal about the experience of loss and love as an element capable of healing even the deepest wounds. 

LIS interpreter will be present at the presentation