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Item Details
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SHARDS
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| By: |
Ismet Prcic |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0802170811 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780802170811 |
| Publisher: |
GROVE PRESS / ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
4 October, 2011 |
| Synopsis: |
Ismet Prcic s brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must write everything. The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet s childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. As Ismet s foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young manreal or imaginednamed Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa s story begins to overshadow Ismet s new-world identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it. "Shards" is a thrilling reada harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family." |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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