How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
6 May 2009
Summary
“A brilliant debut novel” about a young Bosnian War refugee who finds the secret to survival in language and stories (Los Angeles Times).
For Aleksandar Krsmanovic, Grandpa Slavko’s stories endow life in Visegrad with a kaleidoscopic brilliance. Neighbors, friends, and family past and present take on a mythic quality; the River Drina courses through town like the pulse of life itself. So when his grandfather dies suddenly, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780802144225 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0802144225 |
| Author: | Sasa Stanisic, Anthea Bell |
| Publisher: | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Imprint: | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 6 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 140mm x 206mm |
| Series: | Grove Press |
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Praise for How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
“A bold, questing work of art.”–Los Angeles Times
“Funny, heartbreaking, beautifully written.”–The Seattle Times
“Wildly inventive … It rages rough and broad and joyful.”–San Francisco Chronicle
“The magic of storytelling lies at the heart of Sasa Stanisic’s sensational debut… . A book that will dominate the discourse on how children experience war for a long time to come.”–Foreign Policy
“Poignant and hauntingly beautiful.”–The Village Voice
“Will convert skeptics with the sheer force of its emotional power.”–The Oregonian
“An astonishing accomplishment … Enthralling, something you can’t put down.”–Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
“Dazzling … A novel rich with experience and imagination.”–Kirkus Reviews
About The Author
Sasa Stanisic
Sasa Stanisic was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1978. At the age of fourteen, he fled to Germany with his family and went on to study literature in Heidelberg and Leipzig. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone is his first novel.
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