{"product_id":"my-husband-9781628973457","title":"My Husband","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdulterers, cheats, hypocrites, bad seeds--in \u003ci\u003eMy Husband\u003c\/i\u003e, Rumena Buzarovska turns her wry and razor-sharp gaze on men, and on the lives of the women who suffer them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these eleven devastatingly precise and psychologically unsettling stories, we follow the female protagonists' thwarted attempts at intimacy, ranging from pretense, to denial, to violent and ultimately self-destructive acts. This smart, funny, provocative collection demonstrates the profound skills that have made Rumena Buzarovska one of the finest contemporary writers of short fiction in Macedonia. This story collection \u003ci\u003eMojot Maz\u003c\/i\u003e in Croatian (\u003ci\u003eMy Husband\u003c\/i\u003e in English), won the Edo Budisa Award for Best Short Story Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRumena Buzarovska has published has published four collections of short stories. Her stories \"Waves\" and \"Lily\" have appeared in Best European Fiction 2016 and Contemporary Macedonian Fiction, respectively, both published by Dalkey Archive Press. She is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Skopje. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Filev is a literary translator from Macedonian and Spanish to English. His translations include the novels\u003ci\u003e Alma Mahler\u003c\/i\u003e by Sasho Dimoski (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018), \u003ci\u003eBlue Label\u003c\/i\u003e by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles, and the anthology \u003ci\u003eContemporary Macedonian Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (Dalkey Archive Press, 2019. He lives in Melbourne. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567518159122,"sku":"9781628973457","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_364d485f-a990-4fd4-9487-3070bfb01571.jpg?v=1731922222","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-husband-9781628973457","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}