How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone - Couverture souple

Stanisic, Sasa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 029785299X ISBN 13 : 9780297852995

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007

Synopsis

277p paperback, first English translation, condition firm and clean, appears unread

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Wonderfully inventive and impressive'Guardian

'Sasa Stanisic's inventive flourishes... inject the novel with a breezy bravado' Independent

'Enchanting'Big Issue

'There are shades of Joyce here, and Pynchon too, but the whole retains a breathlessly unique, charmingly youthful and deliciously foreign voice... astonishing... simply world-class'Irish Examiner

'Sad and magical'Scotsman

'Impressive'Metro

'A bold, questing work of art'Los Angeles Times

'Funny, heartbreaking, beautifully written'Seattle Times

'Wildly inventive... it rages rough and broad and joyful'San Francisco Chronicle

'Sensational... a book that will dominate the discourse on how children experience war for a long time to come'Foreign Policy

'Poignant and hauntingly beautiful'Village Voice

'Dazzling... a novel rich with experience and imagination'Kirkus

'Deeply poignant... enchanting FT

Effervescent The Millions

A powerful catalogue of loss --Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Aleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned States and painter of unfinished things. He knows the first chapter of Marx's Das Kapital by heart but spends most of his time playing football in the Bosnian town of Visegrad on the banks of the river Drina. When his grandfather, a master storyteller, dies of the fastest heart attack in the world while watching Carl Lewis's record, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. However when the shadow of war spreads to Visegrad, the world as he knows it stops. Suddenly it is not important how heavy a spider's life weighs, or why Marko's horse is related to Superman. Suddenly it is important to have the right name and to pretend that the little Muslim girl Asija is his sister. Then Aleksandar's parents decide to flee to Germany and he must leave his new friend behind.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 029785299X
• ISBN 13: 9780297852995
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288