'You will go a long way to find anything better than this' Edward Docx
'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 entertainment' Guardian
The Question of Bruno is an elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, written in prose of unparalleled daring, invention and wit.
'Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing' Time Out
'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
'A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertaining' Scotland on Sunday
The Question of Bruno is an elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, written in prose of unparalleled daring, invention and wit.
Born in Sarajevo, Aleksandar Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He is also the author of Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project (a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award), and a forthcoming collection of stories, Love and Obstacles. He lives in Chicago.
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the prize-winning The Lazarus Project, as well as Nowhere Man and The Question of Bruno, and most recently The Book of My Lives. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon has lived in Chicago since 1992, and wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 'genius grant' from the MacArthur foundation in 2004.
Title: The Question of Bruno
Author: Hemon, Aleksandar
ISBN: 9780330393485
Binding:
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication Date: 2009-08-07
Number of Pages: 240
Weight: 0.1588 kg
'You will go a long way to find anything better than this' Edward Docx
'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 entertainment' Guardian
'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
'A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertaining' Scotland on Sunday
'Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing' Time Out