Question of Bruno

Zusatztext 'Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing' Time Out Informationen zum Autor Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo and lives in Chicago. He is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, Love and Obstacles, and The Lazarus Project , which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work also appears regularly in the New Yorker and Granta, among other publications. 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aleksandar Hemon
• Editore: Picador Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 18 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.08.2009
• EAN: 9780330393485
• ISBN: 978-0-330-39348-5
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 195 mm x 16 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; 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