Description
| Product ID: | 9780330393485 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Question of Bruno |
| Authors: | Author: Aleksandar Hemon |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A electrifying collection of stories from one of the most blazing talents working in English today. <p><b>From the author of <i>The World and All That It Holds</i>, Aleksandar Hemon's stunning debut <i>The Question of Bruno</i> is a collection of beautifully told yet polically-charged short fiction.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>‘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’ – <i>Observer</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-08-07 |
