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The Question of Bruno
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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.
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Details
240 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
You will go a long way to find anything better than thisEdward 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 entertainmentGuardian
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 circumstancesObserver
A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertainingScotland on Sunday