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Where You Come From
Herkunft
Saša Stanišić (born 1978)
Translated by Damion Searls
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Where You Come From
Jonathan Cape · United Kingdom · 4 November 2021 · Hardcover · 368 pages
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Tin House · United States · 2021
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A book about the first accident of every life: being born somewhere, and what comes after. The narrator collects his homelands, remembered and invented: language, illegal work, the relay of youth and many summers. The summer his grandfather trod on his grandmother's foot so hard while dancing that the narrator was nearly never born. The summer he almost drowned. The summer Germany opened its borders, which resembled the summer he fled across many borders to Germany. And a farewell to his grandmother, who is losing her memories to dementia while he gathers his. The dead and the snakes speak too.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 355 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Migration, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Bosnia & Herzegovina, Germany
- First published
- 2019 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag
- Author's age
- 41 when first published
- ISBN
9783630874739 (original)
9781787332782 (Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom)
9781951142759 (Tin House, United States)
- More
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