From the author of The World and All That It Holds,Aleksandar Hemon's stunning debut The Question of Bruno is a collection of beautifully told yet polically-charged short fiction.In this elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia,Hemon's stories journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation,writing in prose of unparalleled daring,invention and wit.This collection features the novella Blind Jozef & Dead Souls,as a young immigrant to the United States watches while his homeland of Sarajevo falls to a violent siege.'Like Nabokov,Hemon writes with the startling peeled vision of the outsider,weighing words as if for the first time; he shares with Kundera an ability to find grace and humour in the bleakest of circumstances'- Observer
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9780330393485Number of pages: 240Weight: 172 gDimensions: 196 x 131 x 16 mm
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You will go a long way to find anything better than thisThere is simply more history and more drama in Hemon's stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainmentLike Nabokov,Hemon writes with the startling peeled vision of the outsider,weighing words as if for the first time; he shares with Kundera an ability to find grace and humour in the bleakest of circumstancesA storyteller,funny and sad in equal measure,and always entertainingAmazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing
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