Praise for Every Time We Say Goodbye

Readers familiar with Sajkos Love Novel will remember the authors long absorbing streamofconsciousness sentences In Every Time We Say Goodbye every chapter is a single sentence running for pages The translator Mima Simi approaches her task inventively the prose flows in sync with the protagonists thoughts now rolling along now jolting on the tracks now braking hard

Anna Aslanyan Times Literary Supplement

Sajko vividly captures the way in which travel suspends both time and place in scenes that are at once real and dreamlike evoking generations of exile and migration the inevitable aftershock of the wars and purges that have defined the Balkans Every Time We Say Goodbye is a threnody to leavetakingelegant mournful and profoundly human

Frank Wynne Irish Times

However grim the subject matter the writing remains exceptionally good with long majestic sentences that curl unpredictably around the subject This profound novel is superbly translated by Simi whose translators note is in itself fascinating

Declan ODriscoll Irish Times

A darkly meditative work from a strong and unflinching voice

Kirkus Reviews

Sajkos blackhearted modernist novel is worth a look

Publishers Weekly

Sajkos characteristic style resonates throughout the text in rapid changes of condensed scenes concise and emotionally charged literary clusters of a confident pen for whom prose is always a measured experiment of rapids and explosions

Ana Fazekas

Praise for Love Novel

Sajkos sentences mimic how in the heat of argument thoughts converge events conflate and emotions surge until one forgets where it all began

Literary Review of Canada

A work of startling and brass originality Sajko never shies away from the broken and crass aspects of being in love But within this writing moments of grace and absolute beauty shine through Moments as exquisite as the rst falling snowakes that stop you in your tracks

Heather ONeill author of When We Lost Our Heads

Sajkos taut innovative writing has a pounding tempo she unleashes a stream of consciousness that combines all the hopes regrets and resentments competing in the minds of her characters Every word has been chosen carefully

Harriet Zaidman Winnipeg Free Press

A necessary read brief yet intricate raw but profoundly touching

Anne SmithNochasak The Miramichi Reader

The true love story in this novel is the love between the reader and the characters asking the reader to sympathize with the flawed struggling characters reminding them that some relationships are too interwoven to be truly cut apart

Alex Carrigan The temz Review