Question of Bruno

Zusatztext 'Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing' Time Out Informationen zum Autor Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Making of Zombie Wars ; The Book of My Lives , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Lazarus Project , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times bestseller; The World and All That It Holds ; and three books of short stories, including Nowhere Man , which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a ‘Genius’ grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Klappentext 'You will go a long way to find anything better than this' Edward Docx 'There is simply more history and more drama in Hemon's stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainment' Guardian The Question of Bruno is an elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, written in prose of unparalleled daring, invention and wit. 'Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing' Time Out 'Like Nabokov, Hemon writes with the startling peeled vision of the outsider, weighing words as if for the first time; he shares with Kundera an ability to find grace and humour in the bleakest of circumstances' Observer 'A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertaining' Scotland on Sunday The Question of Bruno is an elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, written in prose of unparalleled daring, invention and wit. A electrifying collection of stories from one of the most blazing talents working in English today Zusammenfassung A electrifying collection of stories from one of the most blazing talents working in English today....

Product details

• Authors: Aleksandar Hemon
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2009
• EAN: 9780330393485
• ISBN: 978-0-330-39348-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sarajevo, Chicago, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / City Life, Short Stories, Illinois, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Satirical fiction and parodies, FICTION / Own Voices, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction