The Time of the Goats

by Luan Starova

It's the late 1940s in Skopje, Yugoslavia, in the critical year leading to Tito's break with Stalin. Pushed to leave mountain villages to become the new proletariat in urban factories, a flood of peasants crowds into Skopje--and with them, all of their goats. Suffering from hunger, Skopje's citizens welcome the newcomers. But municipal leaders are faced with a dilemma when the central government issues an order calling for the slaughter of the country's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299290948
• ISBN13: 9780299290948
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"