Full name: The Question of Bruno: Stories

Author: Aleksandar Hemon Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780375727009 9780385499231 0375727000 038549923X

In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking. A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassin's bullet. An exiled writer, working in a sandwich shop in Chicago, adjusts to the absurdities of his life. Love letters from war torn Sarajevo navigate the art of getting from point A to point B without being shot. With a surefooted sense of detail and life-saving humor, Aleksandar Hemon examines the overwhelming events of history and the effect they have on individual lives. These heartrending stories bear the unmistakable mark of an important new international writer. Similar books: Five Stories by Willa Cather Final Vinyl Days by Jill McCorkle A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin In the Land of Dreamy Dreams by Ellen Gilchrist Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin If the River Was Whiskey by T. Coraghessan Boyle Cruising Paradise by Sam Shepard A Quiver Full of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal A Twist in the Tale by Jeffrey Archer Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston Passion and Affect by Laurie Colwin Don't Tell Anyone by Frederick Busch Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates