Leaving

Leaving

by Andrej Nikolaidis

£12.99

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Set over a single day, Leaving follows a father from the first silent cigarette on his balcony at 5.07 a.m. to an inevitable final meeting deep in the forest, ten hours later. Along the way, as he attempts to deliver his six-year-old daughter to his estranged wife’s ex-lover in London, the narrative unfolds as a live, first-person broadcast: an unflinching meditation on capitalism and patriarchy, delivered with mordant wit and lyrical digressions. Both a brutal commentary on contemporary Montenegro and a tender portrait of the outcasts and misfits who live on the margins of society, Leaving is a searing last testament of a man, a nation, and perhaps an entire civilisation.

Translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth

128pp, paperback with flaps, £12.99
ISBN: 978-1-916806-28-3
Publication date: 27 April 2027

Press & Reviews

Praise for Andrej Nikolaidis's previous work

‘If there is justice in the world, Nikolaidis' novel should become a bestseller bigger than the novels of James Patterson or John Grisham.’

– Slavoj Žižek

‘A startlingly imaginative piece of work... Anomaly stands as an outstanding testament to a frustrating, tiresome and deadly truth.’

– Charlie Connelly, New European

'Anomaly is playful and extremely smart, with not one single word in excess. It’s one of the best books I have read in a while.’

– Senka Maric, author of Body Kintsugi

'He makes Samuel Beckett look positively cheery; yet the relentless pessimism has an oddly invigorating effect.'

– Independent

About The Book

Author

Andrej Nikolaidis was born in 1974 and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992, following the outbreak of war, Nikolaidis’s family moved to Ulcinj, his father’s hometown in Montenegro, where he still lives. An ardent anti-war activist, supporter of Montenegrin independence and promoter of human rights, especially minority rights, Nikolaidis initially became known for his razor-sharp political commentaries. He now works as a freelance journalist and has written for the Guardian. His previous novels translated into English include The Coming (2011), The Son (2013) and Till Kingdom Come (2015), published by Istros Books, and Anomaly (2024), published by Peirene Press.

Translator

Will Firth was born in 1965 in Newcastle, Australia. He studied German and Slavic languages in Canberra, Zagreb and Moscow. He lives in Berlin and works as a translator of literature and the humanities (from Russian, Macedonian and all variants of Serbo Croatian). Alongside works by Andrej Nikolaidis, his best-received translations of recent years have been Miloš Crnjanski’s A Novel of London and Stefan Boškovi’s The Minister.

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