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Sarajevo Marlboro

By Miljenko Jergovic, Stela Tomasevic (Translator)

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"Poetic and moving . . . of the many books written on Bosnia, this collection of stories is perhaps the best."-Slavenka Drakulic´

Sarajevo Marlboro is Miljenko Jergovic´'s remarkable debut collection of stories. Jergovic´ is a child of Sarajevo who remained in the city thrContinue

"Poetic and moving . . . of the many books written on Bosnia, this collection of stories is perhaps the best."-Slavenka Drakulic´

Sarajevo Marlboro is Miljenko Jergovic´'s remarkable debut collection of stories. Jergovic´ is a child of Sarajevo who remained in the city throughout the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp -understanding of the fate of the city's young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs with a subterranean humor and profoundly personal vision. Their offbeat lives and daily -dramas play out in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.

Miljenko Jergovic was born in Sarajevo in 1966. A poet and journalist, he writes for the daily Oslobodjenje newspaper. He has written another collection of stories as well as two novels: Buick Riviera and Mama Leone. His work has been translated extensively throughout the world.

Stela Tomasevic (Translator) was born in Belgrade in 1963. She studied literature at the University of East -Anglia. She has translated numerous works of nonfiction from the Serbo-Croatian and from the French. She currently works for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former -Yugoslavia.

Ammiel Alcalay (Introduction) is a scholar, critic, trans-lator and poet. In his own words, "My immersion in a -diversity of languages and cultures has shaped and informed my place within American culture. I have come to see myself as a conveyor of ideas, texts, histories, cultural encounters and narrative points of view that, for a variety of reasons, have not gotten the attention they merit."

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  • The twenty-nine short stories in Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergovic are set in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s, and they fill the gaps in the media coverage during that time and in the historical and political accounts that followed. These are tragic, hopeful and funny storie ... (continue)

    The twenty-nine short stories in Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergovic are set in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s, and they fill the gaps in the media coverage during that time and in the historical and political accounts that followed. These are tragic, hopeful and funny stories about philosophical, religious, nationalistic, political, historical and practical subjects, such as the difficulty of getting water during war, the joys of finding your favourite bar still standing, the presence of foreign journalists in Sarajevo and the exodus of refugees.

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  • I usually read books for the fun factor, hence the large number of science fiction books I have on my shelf, but every now and then I get my hands on something else, something different, something real. This book might be about fictional characters, or it might not, but the background is real, the e ... (continue)

    I usually read books for the fun factor, hence the large number of science fiction books I have on my shelf, but every now and then I get my hands on something else, something different, something real. This book might be about fictional characters, or it might not, but the background is real, the emotions are real, what happened was real. I loved the book, even if it sometimes drove me to tears.

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    Omar said on Nov 15, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 180 Pages
  • Edition: 1st
  • ISBN-10: 0972869220
  • ISBN-13: 9780972869225
  • Publisher: Archipelago Books
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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