| Sarajevo Marlboro Contributor(s): Jergovic, Miljenko (Author), Tomassevic, Stela (Translator), Alcalay, Ammiel (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0972869220 ISBN-13: 9780972869225 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: "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 dbut 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003013678 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.06" W x 7.58" (0.68 lbs) 195 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Miljenko Jergovic's remarkable d but collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro - winner of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize - earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. Croatian by birth, Jergovic ? spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of 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 in the foreground, the killing zone in the background. |