As a child I used to get lost in a book and forget about being hungry or thirsty for a few hours and days until the story had unraveled its secrets. Today, I felt like that curious kid that just couldn’t wait to finish the last 100 pages and was then sad to reach the back cover.
To me, Border is a story of displacement- both in the sense of forced migration which is the often untold story of almost every Balkan family(on whichever side of a new or old border) and the ability to communicate ideas that are remote in time and space. And if in geometry displacement is the difference between the final and initial position, mine has physically shifted from the balcony to the couch, but the real shift is in the trajectory of my own journey…to myself.
Never have I ever 