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‘If there is a more inspired writer of fiction than Aleksandar Hemon currently at work in English, I haven’t read him. Startlingly fresh and original . . . Read and rejoice’ GQ
The explosive perils of adolescence, a country falling apart, the overwhelming vertigo of striking out abroad: this is life in which love is only one of many obstacles. From Sarajevo to the darkest heart of Africa, deepest Slovenia, and the melting pot of Chicago, this brilliant and restlessly inventive collection is shot through with humour and truth – found in the most surprising of places.
‘Eccentric, witty and alive with compassion’ Observer
‘Much of the wonder here is in his swaggeringly supple prose, which is by turns delectably lavish and blunt . . . Some of the richest delights in contemporary fiction, as well as some of the best jokes’ Guardian
‘Crackles with wit and dances with invention’ Independent
‘Infinitely vibrant and alive’ Financial Times
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`With guile and gusto, these eight stories abound in beautifully oblique sidelong and backwards glances at the genocidal war in Hemon's Bosnian homeland. Hemon - the refugee genius, Sarajevo-born, stranded in Chicago in 1992, hand-to-mouth survivor of America's worst jobs - sends up the familiar myth of himself. Rueful and self-disparaging, retelling each mishap in a prose that fizzes with dark wit, the narrator often warns about the risks of confusing art and life. The nearest we get to the front-line of Bosnia's tragedy comes in a comic allegory of school kids who try to recapture a "garden of freedom" - fable just as ferocious as Lord of the Flies, but much funnier.'
--Boyd Tonkin, Independent
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0330464442
- ISBN 13 9780330464444
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