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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert
Saša Stanišić (born 1978)
Translated by Anthea Bell
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Weidenfeld & Nicolson · United Kingdom · 2008 · 277 pages
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Grove Press · United States · 2008 · 345 pages
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When civil war comes to Bosnia in the nineties, Aleksandar flees west with his parents. Curious, he sets out to conquer the strange new Germany, and with wild stories from back home, about his large family and its peculiar adventures, he talks away his fear and conjures back 'the time when everything was good'. A tragicomic story about Bosnia and Germany and Bosnians in Germany, about home and foreignness, family and loss, and the power of storytelling, in which anything is possible.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 315 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Migration, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Bosnia & Herzegovina, Germany, 1990s
- First published
- 2006 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag
- Author's age
- 28 when first published
- ISBN
9783630872421 (original)
9780297852988 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, United Kingdom)
9780802118660 (Grove Press, United States)
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