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The Question of Bruno
The Question of Bruno
paperback
Published:
7 August, 2009
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Description
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
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780330393485 |
| ISBN10 | 0330393480 |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 172 g |
| Product Dimensions | 131 x 196 x 16 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
You will go a long way to find anything better than this -- Edward Docx, author of Let Go My Hand
There is simply more history and more drama in Hemon’s stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainment * Guardian *
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 *
A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertaining * Scotland on Sunday *
Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing * Time Out *
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Author's Bio
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Making of Zombie Wars; The Book of My Lives, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times bestseller; The World and All That It Holds; and three books of short stories, including Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a ‘Genius’ grant from the MacArthur Foundation.