Where You Come From

A triumph, funny and touching and subtly profound… it builds a momentum that dazzles throughout. An exhilarating and powerful read. * Jennifer Croft *Stanišic is a poet and revolutionary who has found his true home in language. * Rolling Stone *Wonderfully inventive and impressive. * Guardian *Offensively gifted… Some kind of freak genius. * Irish Examiner *Stanišic is an exceptionally talented, impish and caring writer who has walked the edge of the abyss. * LA Times *It is easy to say that a book is important; this one - especially now, especially here - is of great importance. * Die Welt *[A] brilliant novel… wonderfully alive, vital in its depiction of family life… The book’s conclusion…is a bravura, sustained and singular piece of writing that bursts with wit, heart and empathy… all of which land deftly in Damion Searl’s excellent translation. – Stuart Evers * Observer *Where You Come From…is most powerful in its gentle undoing of what learning a new dialect might seem… Stanìšic’s prose is calm, persuasively so. – Elliot Hoste * New Statesman *

Sasa Stanisic was born in Visegrad in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1978, and moved to Germany when he was fourteen. He studied at the Deutsche Literaturinstitut in Leipzig. His first book How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone became an instant bestseller and was translated into more than 30 languages. Stanisic has received numerous stipends and prizes- For the short stories in Trappers he was awarded the Rheingau Literature Prize and the Schubart Literature Prize. For Where You Come From he received the German Book Prize 2019, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. He was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize 2023. Sasa Stanisic lives and works in Hamburg.

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