The Navel of the Light

• A Novel in Three Fonts and One Luminous Manuscript
• Venko Andonovski

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In the novel The Navel of Light, Andonovski plays precisely and lucidly with time and space, temporal discontinuity, but also with one of the eternal human obsessions – immortality. The three main stories take place during three historical periods, with (non)random synchronicities between them, and cover several key themes: fidelity, eternity, someone else's sin and one's own sinlessness. The game with existence in multiple periods (or in multiple parallel universes) is simultaneously supported by a dynamic narrative in which there is no coincidence, with a multitude of metatextual remarks that boil down to the dilemma – is storytelling given to us so that we can understand that everything is simultaneously the present, the past and the future? The novel also raises powerful questions about semiotics as demonology, about the loss of the innocence of language and script through writing and speech.

Venko Andonovski is one of the most widely read and performed Macedonian playwrights in the last two decades. The Navel of Light was published in 2022, and in the same year it received the „Stale Popov“ award for best prose work. The Navel of Light will be, after The Alphabet for the Disobedient and The Taming of the Bitch, the third title by Venko Andonovski published by TIM Press.

• Cover: paperback
• Year of the edition: 2025
• Original title: Papokot na svetlinata
• Original language: Macedonian
• Translation: Borislav Pavlovski