"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 dA(c)but
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."
General
Imprint: |
Archipelago Books
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2003 |
First published: |
December 2003 |
Authors: |
Miljenko Jergovic
|
Translators: |
Stela Tomasevic
|
Dimensions: |
190 x 154 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
195 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-9728692-2-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
LSN: |
0-9728692-2-0 |
Barcode: |
9780972869225 |
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