{"product_id":"every-time-we-say-goodbye","title":"Every Time We Say Goodbye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A very remarkable book. It has been a long time since I've wanted to proselytize about a new book as much as I do about Ivana Sajko's \u003cem\u003eEvery Time We Say Goodbye . . . \u003c\/em\u003eIt's formally and narratively thrilling, a very slim novel that conveys a whole pressurized life. The translation, by Mima Simic, is extraordinary.\"--Garth Greenwell, author of \u003cem\u003eSmall Rain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA soliloquy of self-examination, upheaval, loss, hope, disillusionment, ambition and failure--Ivana Sajko paints a portrait of an intellectual at a crossroads.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man on a train, propelled from a small town on the south-eastern coast of Europe to Berlin. As the wheels turn, his mind feverishly clacks along, tracing his own past--and that of Europe--to a moment of violence he must flee, moving him further and farther away from the one person he loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipwrecks and border pushbacks; epidemics and industrial ruins; a family separated by economic necessity; a brother lost to crime; love and fear and memories of happier times in Berlin--yet through it all runs a silver thread of hope spun by a far-off friend. \u003cem\u003eEvery Time We Say Goodbye\u003c\/em\u003e is an extended soliloquy of self-examination, upheaval, loss, hope, disillusionment, ambition, and failure, and is a profoundly stark and furious novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ivana Sajko","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54131623821525,"sku":"BS-I6J-966887","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/7170\/2485\/files\/9781771966887-HD.jpg?v=1782930173","url":"https:\/\/www.acornbookshop.com\/products\/every-time-we-say-goodbye","provider":"Acorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}