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Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780972869225)
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Miljenko Jergovic
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xA remarkable and bracing collection of "classic anti-war writing" (Richard Flanagan) from Croatian writer Miljenko Jergovic, whose piercing prose recalls Kurt Vonnegut and Aleksander Hemon Miljenko Jergovic's remarkable d饕ut collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. In "melancholy, dreamlike" prose, the stories in Sarajevo Marlboro "recall Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, but Jergovic's book is the strongest of the three" (Maud Newton). Croatian by birth, Jergovic spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. These stories are distinctly of the material world, and they are shaped by Jergovic's deeply personal vision, subterranean humor, and a razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city's young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs - the minute details of their interior lives in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.
Author: Miljenko Jergovic
ISBN-10: 0972869220
ISBN-13: 9780972869225
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2003
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.58h x 6.06w x 0.62d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 161
Author: Miljenko Jergovic
ISBN-10: 0972869220
ISBN-13: 9780972869225
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2003
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.58h x 6.06w x 0.62d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 161
By Miljenko Jergovic
xMiljenko Jergovic is a Bosnian and Croatian writer and journalist. One of the most significant Balkan writers of his generation, his work has been translated into more than 20 languages. His landmark collection of stories Sarajevo Marlboro received the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize. Mama Leone won the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign book in Italy in 2003. In 2012, he received the Angelus Central European Literature Award for Srda Sings At Dusk On Pentecost. His critically acclaimed autobiographical novel Kin earned starred reviews in both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Jergovic currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
Stela Tomasevic was born in Belgrade in 1963. She studied literature at the University of East Anglia. She has translated numerous works of non-fiction from the Bosnian and the French. She currently works for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.
Stela Tomasevic was born in Belgrade in 1963. She studied literature at the University of East Anglia. She has translated numerous works of non-fiction from the Bosnian and the French. She currently works for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.
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