Author: Sasa Stanisic
Translator: Ji-in Jeong
Publisher: Nanggiyeolla
432 pages | 210*141mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Stanisic's debut novel is the moving story of a young Bosnian
refugee named Aleksandar Krsmanovic. Aleksandar is the apple of his
family's eye, but his sheltered childhood ends when ethnic wars brewing
in the surrounding republics make their way to his hometown in the
spring of 1992. As Serbian troops storm the village, Aleksandar's family
hides, but nowhere is safe. The violence forces the family to Germany,
where they struggle to adjust to their new lives as refugees. In the
depths of their despair, Aleksandar's grandmother makes him promise to
"remember when everything was all right and the time when nothing's all
right." Aleksandar keeps his word, and the memories pour out of him like
a river. The author organizes Aleksandar's recollections as a stream of
consciousness, operating on no distinct linear time line and often
stopping one story and starting another in the same breath. It is
difficult to keep up with this frantic pace, but it pays to be patient
because a remarkable life's journey unfolds.
"A brilliant debut novel from a young Bosnian writer . . . Stanisic's
story is loaded on each page with galvanizing details, desperately
making an inventory of an imperiled world. He maintains a delirious,
jump-cut pace as words flash dark-to-light-to-dark, and sentences coil
and snap, conjuring a macabre carnival atmosphere. . . . This
crazy-quilt novel, a sensation in Europe, is a bold, questing work of
art deeply rooted in the complex history of a blood-soaked, bone-planted
land. . . . Stanisic is an exceptionally talented, impish and caring
writer who has walked the edge of the abyss. One hopes that he will
continue to grapple with the paradoxes intrinsic to the human condition
and tell many more empathic, revealing and imaginative stories full of
cathartic laughter and feeling." -- Donna Seaman, The Los Angeles Times
"Beyond succeeding as a compelling fictional account of the very real
tragedy of a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, [How the Soldier Repairs the
Gramophone] is also testament to the power of the imagination--and its
limitations. . . . Stanisic's tale will remain exceptional: A gifted
storyteller, he's able to translate unspeakably gruesome history into
something poignant and hauntingly beautiful." -- Sidra Durst, The
Village Voice
"In Sasa Stanisic's bittersweet, musical novel about a boy growing up in
Bosnia-Herzogovina before and during the war, many things happen that
are impossible to understand, startlingly visual, bordering on the
surreal but all too real. . . . This is a funny, heartbreaking,
beautifully written novel." -- Mary Brennan, The Seattle Times
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