Chinook: Both Document and Elegy

"Chinook" is Bekim Sejranović's posthumously published, unfinished novel, a meditation on fractured and unstable identity carried by a narrator and his alter ego "Žutokosi." The review reads its incompleteness as a strength that lends the book a certain poetry, and admires its restless engagement with language, etymology, and translation. It regards the work as both document and elegy, a fitting final statement shaped by exile and displacement.

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