Contemporary Macedonian Fiction Apocalypse Try as he might to

Try as he might to salvage the relationship

Reading Ivan Ângelo's The Celebration by Theodore McDermott

some whose children were gone ahead to prepare a home to give them

an elderly widow invites her even older sister to live with her

Dermot Healy (1947-2014) was born in Finea

Contemporary Macedonian Fiction Apocalypse Try as he might toThe stories included in this anthology of Macedonian fiction introduce English Language readers to a literary culture that has too long been overlooked. Ranging form the melancholy realism of Rumena Buarovska's "Lily" to surreal fantasias like Tomislav Osmanli's "Strained"in which a stressed out businessman eats his own computerthese texts paint a portrait of a country in constant transformation, still haunted by the Yugoslav past but quickly hurtling