Hollywood

A few days before she is due to give birth, Branka Svetidrva, the narrator's lover, is hit by a stray bullet and dies in the streets of New Jersey. Lost, he drinks and ends up in a back-alley shelter in Brooklyn, taken in by Sarah and Henry, two gentle outcasts. While every television in the world is tuned to the live suicide of a Chechen astronaut in space, a childhood friend of his, he tells the story of meeting the woman who survived the snipers of Sarajevo, climbed churches and wanted to prove that God was just one more reassuring fiction. How can he make sense of her death?

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

182 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States

First published

2012 by Leméac Éditeur

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9782760933552 (original)

9781550963977 (Exile Editions, Canada)