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Albahari addresses immigrant life—the need to fit into one’s adopted homeland—as well as the joys and terrors of refusing to give up one’s essential “strangeness” in the face of an alien culture
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unemployment
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The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am Turkish Literature Series Albahari addresses immigrant life—the needBy Kjersti A. Skomsvold Translated by Kerri A. Pierce ISBN: 9781564787026 Publication Date: 10 25 2005 Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she is now. Afraid that her life will be over before anyone knows that she lived, Mathea digs out her old wedding dress, bakes some sweet cakes, and heads