The Question of Bruno
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:7th Aug '09
Should be back in stock very soon
A electrifying collection of stories from one of the most blazing talents working in English today.
From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's stunning debut The Question of Bruno is a collection of beautifully told yet polically-charged short fiction.
In this elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia, Hemon's stories journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, writing in prose of unparalleled daring, invention and wit.
This collection features the novella Blind Jozef & Dead Souls, as a young immigrant to the United States watches while his homeland of Sarajevo falls to a violent siege.
‘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
You will go a long way to find anything better than this -- Edward Docx, author of Let Go My Hand
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 *
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 *
Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing * Time Out *
ISBN: 9780330393485
Dimensions: 196mm x 131mm x 16mm
Weight: 172g
240 pages