Bajram the Third

“The manner of storytelling falls somewhere between Maupassant and Tolstoy. Semsudin Gegic describes the soul of the boy and his character in layered details, the way that the maestro Dostoevsky painted the souls of his heroes from lower social backgrounds.
The story ‘Bajram the Third’ by Semsudin Gegic contains secret hidden, elements of wondrous occurrences in Bajram’s family, and, like a topsy-turvy picture in a funhouse mirror, it resembles the magic-filled stories of Scheherazade in One Thousand and One Nights, where magic and the surreal surpass everyday reality, and where elements both real and imaginary are so intertwined that reality seems imaginary and wondrous, while surreal events appear as a plausible everyday reality, necessary for a person to survive."
Bajram Redzepagic, who himself is a writer, wrote a review of this story, recommending it for anthologies worldwide. This is an excerpt.