Summer Without You [TRADE PAPER ]

The short novel by Petar Andonovski,The Summer Without You, tells a complex story of three men enmeshed in a love relationship. It is a novel about the internal struggles, about alienation between partners, about the enduring search for truth. But it is also a novel about family and provincialism.Christina E. Kramer is professor emerita at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books on Macedonian language and the Balkans and a translator of Macedonian literature, includingFreud's Sister, by Goce Smilevski;My Father's Books,The Time of the GoatsandThe Path of the Eels, by Luan Starova; andA Spare Life, by Lidija Dimkovksa.Petar Andonovski was born in 1987, in Kumanovo, north Macedonia. He studied general and comparative literature at the Faculty of Philology, at the University of Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. He has published one poetry collection and four novels. In 2015 his novelThe Body One Must Live Inwon the national award for Novel of the Year.Fear of Barbariansreceived the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature.First Macedonian queer novel.From Petar Andonovski, winner of the 2020 European Union Prize forLiterature.