Tony

[novel]

Tony is the anti-hero of our time. He is a middle-aged former rocker with a mundane government job who lives with his mother after a string of failed relationships. Bužarovska skillfully and mercilessly reveals all the cracks in his character: selfishness disguised as freedom, irresponsibility as authenticity, childishness as a life philosophy. The pandemic, isolation, and a series of seemingly trivial events become the trigger for his world to collapse.

 
Tony is a novel about the perils of masculinity and tradition. An uncomfortably truthful and devastatingly precise study of society and its delusions, Tony is written in Bužarovska’s distinctive style: sharp, bitter and brutally funny.

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