Since I Bought A Swan by Tanja Stupar-Trifunović. Translator Petar Penda

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An LGBTQ+  love story with adult themes and content.

SINCE I BOUGHT A SWAN  is a tender, deeply personal story of two women who find imperfect romance and improbable passionate obsession from an incidental meeting in a university library.

EXCERPT

I know when your eyes are mixed with curiosity, cruelty, and longing to wake up in others’ pain as a reaction to you: As a confirmation. If they feel pain, they love you. You couldn’t find any other emotion by which you would recognise love. Ways to inflict pain were various. You were ready to hurt yourself and others. A cruel little girl. You gaze at the wound with your eyes until it blossoms. Instead of blood, there is a flower falling on your palm. I cannot be angry with you. You just imitate the world’s cruelty that taught you how to act. Both the world and you make me sad.
“Aren’t you inspired by pain? You just call it love too often.”
I tell you it is love. The pain transformed. It changed its clothing. As an actress on a stage. Into a new dress.
You come to the library asking for Schlink’s Reader. You look at me with your blazing eyes which want to reach my brain and drill a hole in it. Once you will angrily tell me I am the same as the woman from the book. ”

ISBN  978-3-9525290-5-8