Sarajevo Saga
By Stefan Çapaliku
Translated from the Albanian by Vlora Konushevci
Oct. 12th 2026
Price £ 12.99
ISBN: 978-1-912545-57-5
April 2024. A well-known Albanian writer arrives in Sarajevo for a one-month literary residency. By the next day, he realizes he has no real idea what to write about.
At the same time, a photograph weighs heavily in his pocket, a portrait of four children, cousins,who had left Albania for Sarajevo during the aftermath of the First World War. Their names, and the shared surname Cukali, are handwritten on the back. Should he write about a writer’s creative paralysis, or should he trace the footsteps of a forgotten family history that began over a century ago in this very city, transforming his residency into a journey of excavation, longing, and ancestral memory?
