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Title: Damages
Author: Bazhe
ISBN: 0-595-73613-0
Book Length: 414 Pages
Type: Nonfiction
Genre: Memoir
Format: eBook
Copyright 2002, Bazhe
(exp: 4/01/2008)
Synopsis
Damages is a family saga where "truth is stranger than fiction," as the
old saying goes. It is my testament that resonates with passion for peace
in the world that turned to violent ethnic strife after years of civil
unrest, echoed by my own inner turmoil. It is a personal history replete
with betrayal from family, friends, relatives, government officials,
informants, army recruits, teenage ruffians, hired help, transvestites,
nationalists, and Muslim fundamentalists. It is a story about my
unconditional love towards an adoptive mother who suffers from cancer
and my search for the biological one that I can never have. It is a tale
of my inner and outer wars and the journey of self-discovery—arenas of
life spent with urgency to find my true identity and freedom.
Author Bio
Bazhe is a writer, poet, and artist. He has published poems and short
stories in Former Yugoslavia. In America, his poems have appeared in:
Winter's gems anthology, Bay windows, Opus Literary Review, River run,
and Reader. His art has been exhibited in New York City. He now lives in
New Jersey.
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Book Excerpt
Damages is a memoir about one man’s fight to overcome the psychological
wounds created by his peculiar upbringing as he struggled to find his true
identity and freedom. In addition, it expresses his unconditional love for
his mother. The story begins with the death of his abusive father, a
Communist official. His mother is diagnosed with cancer, and he immediately
returns to Macedonia to take care of her. Meanwhile, his more than
thirty-year search for his biological mother ends, and he tells her his
life story, starting with his lonely childhood and adolescence. After
finding his "new mother" to be very understanding, he reveals his first
gay experience in the army, his desire for self-realization that caused
scandals in the College of National Security, his escape to Turkey where
he transformed into a stunning transvestite after meeting a handsome
wealthy man, and his return to Yugoslavia where he wandered in the
underground world of a country that was falling apart. As Yugoslav
nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism rose, he experienced them directly,
almost losing his life, but he eventually succeeded in immigrating to
America. Although he finds his biological mother, he ultimately discovers
that it is his adoptive mother’s devotion that is irreplaceable.
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