About the author
Rene Karabash is the pen name of Bulgarian writer and filmmaker Irena Ivanova. Her work moves between poetry, screen performance, and fiction concerned with the social roles imposed on women.
She Who Remains follows an Albanian girl who becomes a sworn virgin under the Kanun, taking a male social role within a customary system that otherwise sharply restricts her choices.
Where to start
Start with She Who Remains for Karabash’s novel about gender, oath, family authority, and the Albanian sworn-virgin tradition.
