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by Miljenko Jergovic
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Availability:In StockContributor:Miljenko Jergovic, Stela Tomassevic (Translator), Ammiel Alcalay (Introduction by)Publish date:2003-12-15Pages:195
Language:EnglishPublisher:Archipelago BooksISBN-13:9780972869225ISBN-10:972869220UPC:9780972869225Book Category:Fiction, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:Europe (General)Size:7.58 x 6.06 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCAVP1TM7T
A 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 début 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Archipelago BooksISBN-13:9780972869225ISBN-10:972869220UPC:9780972869225Book Category:Fiction, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:Europe (General)Size:7.58 x 6.06 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCAVP1TM7T
Miljenko 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.
Publisher: Archipelago Books

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Miljenko Jergovic, Stela Tomassevic (Translator), Ammiel Alcalay (Introduction by)

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Miljenko Jergovic

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