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
| ISBN: | 9780330393485 |
| Publication date: | 7th August 2009 |
| Author: | Aleksandar Hemon |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
‘Street’ Fiction Shorter Reads Biographical Fiction Satirical fiction and parodies Narrative theme: Interior life Narrative theme: Identity / belonging Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration |