{"id":58855,"date":"2013-09-06T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=58855"},"modified":"2013-09-06T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T15:02:43","slug":"lidija-dimkovska-skopje-macedonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/lidija-dimkovska-skopje-macedonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidija Dimkovska, Skopje, Macedonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Lidija_Dimkovska.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Lidija_Dimkovska.jpg\" alt=\"Lidija_Dimkovska\" width=\"552\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Lidija_Dimkovska.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Lidija_Dimkovska-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My late childhood and entire youth window. I began to write in front of this view, and while I am here, I still do, at a low, small table. On a typewriter then, on a laptop now, but preferably in a small notebook with lines.<\/p>\n<p>I look outside often; the pictures have become very familiar. Two brothers used to live in the building with their families and their old mother, a small, tiny woman in black who always was screaming at her grandchildren, often beating them or running after them. They also were screaming, and that noise was present in the air until the parents would come home from work. Later, I found out that they moved the grandma from the first floor to the cellar, where she died. One of her daughter-in-laws was Serbian; once, the Serbian woman sent me and my friends to the shop to buy her a special orange juice, Fructal. She opened it, and for the first time in my life I tried this juice that my family could not afford.<\/p>\n<p>The roof of the building was always in my view. In the mornings a stork would come to the chimney on the roof and look through my window. We looked each other in the eyes, and we understood each other. He was my sky, I was his earth\u2019s friend. It was impossible not to write. &mdash;Lidija Dimkovska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. My late childhood and entire youth window. I began to write in front of this view, and while I am here, I still do, at a low, small table. 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