{"product_id":"sarajevo-marlboro-paperback","title":"Sarajevo Marlboro - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiljenko Jergovic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStela Tomassevic\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAmmiel Alcalay\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA remarkable and bracing collection of \"classic anti-war writing\" (Richard Flanagan) from Croatian writer Miljenko Jergovic, whose piercing prose recalls Kurt Vonnegut and Aleksander Hemon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Miljenko Jergovic's remarkable début collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eSarajevo Marlboro\u003c\/i\u003e, earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. In \"melancholy, dreamlike\" prose, the stories in \u003ci\u003eSarajevo Marlboro\u003c\/i\u003e \"recall Alan Lightman's \u003ci\u003eEinstein's Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e and Italo Calvino's \u003ci\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, but Jergovic's book is the strongest of the three\" (Maud Newton). Croatian by birth, Jergovic spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. These stories are distinctly of the material world, and they are shaped by Jergovic's deeply personal vision, subterranean humor, and a razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city's young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs - the minute details of their interior lives in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiljenko Jergovic \u003c\/b\u003eis a Bosnian and Croatian writer and journalist. One of the most significant Balkan writers of his generation, his work has been translated into more than 20 languages. His landmark collection of stories \u003ci\u003eSarajevo Marlboro\u003c\/i\u003e received the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize\u003ci\u003e. Mama Leone\u003c\/i\u003e won the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign book in Italy in 2003. In 2012, he received the Angelus Central European Literature Award for \u003ci\u003eSrda Sings At Dusk On Pentecost\u003c\/i\u003e. His critically acclaimed autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eKin\u003c\/i\u003e earned starred reviews in both \u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. Jergovic currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStela Tomasevic \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Belgrade in 1963. She studied literature at the University of East Anglia. She has translated numerous works of non-fiction from the Bosnian and the French. She currently works for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 195\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.58 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772827599136,"sku":"9780972869225","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1477a172d40b8b4d9e558a9eb939d330.webp?v=1780415171","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sarajevo-marlboro-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}